Caitlin Dickerson

Caitlin Dickerson has been a staff writer at The Atlantic since 2021. In 2023, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, the Livingston Award for National Reporting, and the Silvers-Dudley Prize.

Before joining The Atlantic, Dickerson spent five years as a reporter for The New York Times, and five years as a producer and reporter for NPR. Her investigative reporting and long-form feature writing have also been recognized with a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow award, and two National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence awards. Her Pulitzer-winning work was published in The Best American Magazine Writing 2023.

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  1. The Family-Separation Files

    Made public here for the first time, a collection of key internal government documents related to the Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance policy

    Three file boxes with empty hands reaching out across them
    Getty; The Atlantic