Paisley Dodds
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Paisley Dodds is an American journalist
, and London
bureau chief for The Associated Press.
and a native of Painesville, Ohio.
In 1994, she joined the AP in Johannesburg, South Africa. After three years covering post-Apartheid South Africa, she then worked for the AP in Miami, Little Rock and Boston before joining the international desk in the New York headquarters. In 2001, she was promoted to Caribbean news editor in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From 2001 to 2005, her primary assignments included Haiti and Guantanamo where she broke several stories about abuse in the U.S. prison camp. In 2005, she was named London bureau chief.
She is the recipient of the George Polk award for her foreign reporting in Haiti. She also won the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award, the Enterprise Reporting Award from the AP Managing Editors Association and the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for her investigative reporting at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, and London
London
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bureau chief for The Associated Press.
Life
She is a graduate of John Carroll UniversityJohn Carroll University
John Carroll University is a private, co-educational Jesuit Catholic university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus as Saint Ignatius College.The university was founded in 1886 by the Society of Jesus, as...
and a native of Painesville, Ohio.
In 1994, she joined the AP in Johannesburg, South Africa. After three years covering post-Apartheid South Africa, she then worked for the AP in Miami, Little Rock and Boston before joining the international desk in the New York headquarters. In 2001, she was promoted to Caribbean news editor in San Juan, Puerto Rico. From 2001 to 2005, her primary assignments included Haiti and Guantanamo where she broke several stories about abuse in the U.S. prison camp. In 2005, she was named London bureau chief.
She is the recipient of the George Polk award for her foreign reporting in Haiti. She also won the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award, the Enterprise Reporting Award from the AP Managing Editors Association and the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for her investigative reporting at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo.
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