Abbie VanSickle joins The New York Times

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We’re excited to announce that Abbie VanSickle of The Marshall Project will be joining the Washington bureau of The Times as a Supreme Court reporter. Abbie will work alongside Adam Liptak, our chief Supreme Court correspondent, to cover the world of the court, including its role in politics and the lives of the justices.

At The Marshall Project, Abbie was the lead reporter on a yearlong investigation into injuries caused by police dog bites that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting. She examined police use of force on children; dug into the troubled history of the officer who killed George Floyd; and investigated a legal doctrine that sends people to prison for murder, even when they haven’t killed anyone.

Previously Abbie worked as a reporter for the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a 2019 finalist for Harvard’s

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. She started her journalism career at the Tampa Bay Times, where she spent four years covering breaking news and criminal justice.

A native of rural Indiana, Abbie graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and Berkeley’s School of Law, where she was senior notes editor of the California Law Review. From 2011 to 2012, she was a Henry Luce Scholar in Cambodia, where she worked on behalf of survivors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. She also practiced law as a public defender in Seattle.

She starts Feb. 28. Please welcome her!

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