Cheryl W. Thompson

Cheryl W. Thompson is an award-winning NPR investigative correspondent and senior investigations editor, and an associate professor of journalism at George Washington University. Before landing at NPR in 2019, Ms. Thompson spent 22 years at The Washington Post, covering the White House, Justice Department and D.C. police. She spent a decade on the I-team and shared in two Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting—in 2002 for the 9/11 attacks, and 2016 for police shootings. In 2018, she became the first Black elected to lead Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the only president to serve three terms. She was the reporting coach on “No Compromise,” the 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for audio, and served as a Pulitzer Prize juror for investigative reporting in 2022 and chaired the jury in 2023.