Managing Editor,  ProPublica

Ginger Thompson is a managing editor at ProPublica. Before joining the organization in 2014 as a senior reporter, she spent 15 years at The New York Times as the Mexico City bureau chief, an investigative reporter and a Washington correspondent. Before that, she was a Latin American correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun.

Thompson spent much of her reporting career covering Latin America and the U.S./Mexico border, including immigration, political upheaval, attacks on human rights and the failures of the fight against drug cartels. In 2018, she obtained secretly recorded audio of sobbing immigrant children who had been separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance border policy. Two days after the audio’s release, the administration retreated from the policy. A federal judge ruled against the policy a week later.

As chief of correspondents for ProPublica, she co-led the creation of their investigative editor training program, attracting participants from national and local news organizations around the country.

She holds a degree from Purdue University and a Master of Public Policy from George Washington University, focusing on human rights law.