Ginger Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning senior reporter at ProPublica. Her most recent article is "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico."

“How many times have I written the phrase ‘a town that was controlled by drug traffickers?' I had no idea what that really meant. What does it mean to live in a town that’s controlled by drug traffickers? And how does it get that way? One of the things I was hoping that we could do by having the people who actually lived through that explain it to us was that—to bring you close to that and say, ‘No, here’s what that means.’”

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Thompson on Longform

[01:30] "How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico" (ProPublica / National Geographic • Jun 2017)

[01:45] Thompson’s Archive at The New York Times

[01:45] "Trafficking In Terror" (New Yorker • Dec 2015)

[02:30] readthissummer.com

[02:45] Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets (Luke Dittrich • Random House • 2016)

[02:45] Luke Dittrich on the Longform Podcast

[05:15] Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Svetlana Alexievich • Picador • 2006)

[34:30] "A Drug Family in the Winner’s Circle" (New York Times • Jun 2012)

[38:45] "Nafta to Open Foodgates, Engulfing Rural Mexico" (New York Times • Dec 2002)

[38:45] Thompson’s “Fatal secretes in Honduras” series (with Gary Cohn • Baltimore Sun • 1995)

[43:15] "Calderón Wins Narrow Victory in Mexico Election" (with James C. McKinley Jr. • New York Times • Jul 2006)

[45:30] "Mexico City Journal; The Rich, Famous and Aghast: A Peep-Show Book" (New York Times • Sep 2002)

[46:30] "Richest Mexican talks equity— Business International Herald Tribune" (New York Times • Jun 2006)

[52:15] "Reaping What Was Sown On the Old Plantation; A Landowner Tells Her Family’s Truth. A Park Ranger Wants a Broader Truth." (New York Times • Jun 2000)

[55:30] "‘There’s No Real Fight Against Drugs’" (Atlantic • Jul 2015)

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