Wesley Lowery Biography
Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of America’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He is also the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, an innovative “training hospital” journalism non-profit based at the American University in Washington DC. In addition, he is a Journalist-in-Residence at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a contributing editor at The Marshall Project.
Wesley Lowery Age
Lowery is 33 years old as of May 2024. He was born on July 9, 1990, in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, United States.
Wesley Lowery Height
He is tall. However, his exact height is undisclosed.
Wesley Lowery Nationality
He holds American nationality.
Wesley Lowery Education
Lowery graduated from Shaker Heights High School. He then joined Ohio University where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism. During college, Lowery was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper, The Post, and interned at The Detroit News, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Wall Street Journal.
Wesley Lowery Parents
There is no information about his parents. He hasn’t also revealed whether he has siblings or not.
Wesley Lowery Wife/Partner
Wesley is married to his lovely wife Latoya Morgan, a lawyer and advocate for social justice. However, not much is known about this couple since they’ve kept their marriage away from the public.
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Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the nation’s leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He is the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop, an innovative “training hospital” journalism non-profit based at the American University in Washington DC that trains a rising generation of journalists by partnering them with professional newsrooms to work on projects that fill crucial gaps in media coverage. He is also a Journalist-in-Residence at the CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and a contributing editor at The Marshall Project.
Lowery began his career covering politics but in 2014 was sent to Ferguson, Mo., to cover the police killing of Michael Brown for the Washington Post. In the years that followed, he would chronicle the early years of the Black Lives Matter movement, writing a bestselling book and launching Fatal Force — a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police. That database — which remains the most reliable public data on police shootings — won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Peabody Award and was named one of the decade’s top 10 works of journalism.
In the years that followed he led and contributed to investigative projects that examined unsolved homicides in major American cities (Pulitzer Prize finalist), what happens to fired police officers, so-called repeat offender criminal defendants, fentanyl overdoses in major cities (in 2017 and 2022), the failures to catch the deadliest serial killer in American history, and what happens to people who are shot by the police and survive. His latest book, American Whitelash, published in June 2023, chronicles the rise in white supremacist violence in the years since Barack Obama’s election.
Lowery hosted “Unfinished: Ernie’s Secret” an investigative podcast that explores the life of Ernest Withers, a legendary civil rights photographer who was also a paid FBI informant. He also served as co-host of “More Than A Vote: Our Voices, Our Vote.” He was an executive producer of In the Cold Dark Night, an Emmy-nominated documentary chronicling the effort to solve the 1983 lynching of Timothy Coggins.
For In These Times, he traced Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s path from to becoming the most powerful progressive in American politics. For GQ, he went deep about marriage and monogamy with Will Smith, talked politics and the press with Trevor Noah, dove into the post-scandal life of Andrew Gillum, and chronicled the last days of death row inmate Dustin Higgs. He also wrote about opioid overdoses among black men in Milwaukee and cities across the country for Men’s Health. And for EBONY he has profiled Tessa Thompson and Shamiek Moore.
Wesley Lowery Salary
His salary is under review.
Wesley Lowery Net Worth
His net worth is undisclosed.
