Kimbriell kelly biography

Kimbriell Kelly

Kimbriell Kelly is an American journalist and expert on public records requests,[1] currently working as Washington Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times. She is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Washington Post.[2][3]

Early life

Kelly is originally from the Chicago area and is a graduate of Saint Xavier University as well as a graduate of Boston University.[4][5]

Career

Kelly began her career at the Daily Herald and subsequently the Chicago Reporter.[5][6] While in Illinois, Kelly hosted a public-affairs show on WFLD -Channel 32 and a weekly radio show on Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM.[7]

Kelly then worked in Washington, DC as an investigative reporter at the Washington Post, where she became an expert in public records requests and Freedom of Information Act requests.[1]

In ,[7] Kelly left the Post to become the deputy editor for Enterprise and Investigations in the Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times.[3] In that role, Kelly lead a team of five reporters focused on policy and issues of public record.[5] Kelly is currently the Times' Washington Bureau Chief.[8]

Kelly is also a visiting lecturer in the Humanities Council and Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University.[1][3]

Fatal Force project

While at the Post, Kelly worked on the "Fatal Force" project,[9][10] a database that tracked police shootings in [11] At the time, neither the federal government nor state governments had comprehensive, nationwide data on police killings.[12][13] Drawing on databases put together by nonprofit groups as well as local newspaper reports, law enforcement websites and social media, Lowery and colleagues built out the Post's Fatal Force database.

Kelly was one of 70 staffers from multiple departments assembled the database and compiled stories, photos, data, graphics, and videos about trends revealed by the information.[4] The Post has continued to update its database since its founding.

Pulitzer Prize

The Fatal Force project, on which Kelly was one of the lead authors (also see Wesley Lowery), won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in ,[14] and the Justice Department announced a pilot program to begin collecting a more comprehensive set of use-of-force statistics in [15]

Kelly found out about the win when she was on her honeymoon in Aruba.[4] She coauthored the first story in the series and did the necessary data analysis of two decades of police prosecutions. Kelly explained that the project "raised greater accountability in how statistics nationally are kept and prompted an overhaul of those efforts. I’m proud that I got to be a part of something that makes a difference."[4]

References

  1. ^ abc"Princeton University - Kimbriell Kelly". Princeton Humanities Council. Archived from the original on Retrieved
  2. ^Martelli, A. J. "MLK Breakfast: Pulitzer winner discusses continuing fight for justice". The Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved
  3. ^ abc"Kimbriell Kelly — Princeton Journalism". . Retrieved
  4. ^ abcdBarlow, Rich (). "Tyler Hicks, Kimbriell Kelly, and Jessica Rinaldi Win Pulitzer Prizes | Bostonia". Boston University. Retrieved
  5. ^ abcSwanson, Lorraine (). "Saint Xavier University Taps Commencement Speakers". Beverly-MtGreenwood, IL Patch. Retrieved
  6. ^Cottrell, Megan (). "Chicago Reporter Publisher Kimbriell Kelly named one of Chicago's "Women to Watch"". Retrieved
  7. ^ abFeder, Robert (). "Robservations: Mort Crim named to Illinois Broadcasters' Hall of Fame". . Retrieved
  8. ^Kimbriell, Kelly (4 October ). "Erin B Logan named a reporter in the Times' Washington Bureau". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 October
  9. ^Shackford, Scott (18 April ). "Influential Washington Post Database on Police Killings Wins Pulitzer". Reason. Retrieved 13 September
  10. ^Mullin, Benjamin (25 March ). "How The Washington Post counted the dead, one police shooting at a time". Poynter. Retrieved 13 September
  11. ^Woodruff, Judy (April 19, ). "Washington Post honored for deep dive into fatal police shootings". PBS NewsHour. Retrieved 27 October
  12. ^Markowitz, Eric (8 July ). "Meet the Man Who Spends 10 Hours a Day Tracking Police Shootings". GQ. Retrieved 27 October
  13. ^Sutton, Kelsey (April 29, ). "A grassroots organization feels left behind in a Pulitzer Prize winner's shadow". Politico. Retrieved 27 October
  14. ^Associated Press (April 18, ). "L.A. Times wins Pulitzer for coverage of San Bernardino attack". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 September
  15. ^Hernandez, Salvador (October 13, ). "Department Of Justice To Start Collecting Data On Deadly Police Shootings". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 27 October