Journalists attest to experiences of sexual misconduct with Wesley Lowery

Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.

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Wesley Lowery — the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a George Polk Award, and whose work in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, chronicled the organizing power of Black Lives Matter — is, at 34, one of the most recognized journalists in America. He has reported for The Washington Post and CBS News. He is the author of two books: “They Can’t Kill Us All” (2016), about unarmed Black men killed by police, and “American Whitelash” (2023), a history of violent white resistance to people of color. Among young reporters, he is perhaps best known for questioning traditional journalistic objectivity, noting its failures to reckon with racism. 

But for some women in journalism, his standing is more complicated.

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