Adriana Gallardo
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Adriana Gallardo is an American journalist, editor, and educator who serves as an editor for NPR's Morning Edition, focusing on books and author interviews.[1]
Early life
[edit]Gallardo was born in central Mexico and immigrated to the United States as an undocumented child in the late 1980s. She grew up in the Chicago suburbs in a family of janitors.[2]
Career
[edit]ProPublica
[edit]Gallardo joined ProPublica in 2016 as an engagement reporter. During her seven-year tenure, she collaborated on investigative series covering women's health, immigration, and sexual violence.[3]
Her notable projects included:
- "Lost Mothers" (2018) - A Pulitzer Prize finalist series for explanatory reporting
- "Lawless" (2020) - A collaboration with the Anchorage Daily News about sexual violence in Alaska, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
- "Unheard" (2021) - An engagement reporting project from the "Lawless" series[3]
Innovative Reporting Methods
[edit]At ProPublica, Gallardo developed innovative community engagement methods. During the "Lost Mothers" series, she pioneered a unique approach to gathering stories about black maternal mortality, drawing from her experience at StoryCorps to record conversations between women about their experiences.[4]
Public Radio
[edit]Before ProPublica, Gallardo oversaw a national reporting series at 15 public media stations and traveled with the StoryCorps mobile booth, collecting hundreds of stories archived at the Library of Congress.[3] She currently serves as an editor for NPR's Morning Edition, the most listened-to news radio program in the United States.[1]
Teaching
[edit]Gallardo teaches at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and serves as an adjunct professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at City University of New York.[5]
Writing
[edit]Gallardo is an essayist represented by the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, and in Daughters of Latin America, a 2023 anthology available in English and Spanish.[1]
Awards and recognition
[edit]- Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (2020) - For "Lawless" investigation[3]
- Peabody Award[1]
- Ellie Award[1]
- Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma (2021) - For "Unheard"[3]
- Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism (2021)[3]
- Ethics in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists (2021)[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Adriana Gallardo". Personal Website. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ "Adriana Gallardo: From Crossing the Border as an Undocumented Child to Winning the Pulitzer Prize". Democracy Now. May 12, 2020. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Adriana Gallardo". ProPublica. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ "Adriana Gallardo Finds the Untold Stories of Black Mothers". The Open Notebook. May 22, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2024.
- ^ "Adriana Gallardo: "Building Trust: On Sources and Skepticism"". NPDJ. Retrieved November 15, 2024.