{{Short description|American journalist}} '''Sarah Ryley''' is an American journalist working as an investigative and data reporter at the ''Boston Globe.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah L. Ryley - Reporter - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/about/staff-list/staff/sarah-ryley/ |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Previously, she was an investigative reporter at The Trace (website),<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-04-10 |title=Newly Minted Pulitzer Winner Sarah Ryley Joins The Trace as an Investigative Reporter |language=en-US |work=The Trace |url=https://www.thetrace.org/2017/04/sarah-ryley-pulitzer-prize-public-service/ |access-date=2017-04-23}}</ref> a non-profit news outlet that covers gun violence in America, and an editor and investigative journalist at the ''New York Daily News''.
The ''Daily News'' and ProPublica were joint recipients of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Ryley's extensive reporting on the New York Police Department's "widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities."<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-new-york-daily-news-pulitzer-public-service-nuisance-abatement|title=ProPublica, New York Daily News Win Pulitzer Gold Medal|date=2017-04-10|work=ProPublica|access-date=2017-04-24|language=en}}</ref> While at the ''Daily News'', Ryley also reported extensively on the NYPD's "Broken Windows" policing tactics, which resulted in sweeping reforms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=EXCLUSIVE: Daily News analysis finds racial disparities in summonses for minor violations in 'broken windows' policing |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/summons-broken-windows-racial-disparity-garner-article-1.1890567 |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=New York Daily News|date=4 August 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=EXCLUSIVE: Fare evasion arrests surge in recent years, making it among city's top offenses leading to jail: Daily News analysis |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/fare-evasion-arrests-surge-years-article-1.1906667 |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=New York Daily News|date=18 August 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Minorities face disproportionate 'Broken Windows' enforcement everywhere — especially in predominately white neighborhoods |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/broken-windows-disproportionately-enforced-white-neighborhoods-article-1.1931171 |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=New York Daily News|date=8 September 2014 }}</ref>
== Early life and education ==
Ryley was born in Toledo, Ohio, and studied journalism at Wayne State University in Detroit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wayne.edu/newsroom/news/in-depth-series-written-by-former-wayne-state-university-journalism-student-wins-pulitzer-prize-22700/|title=In-depth series written by former Wayne State University journalism student wins Pulitzer Prize|last=University|first=Wayne State|website=wayne.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-07-08}}</ref>
== Career == Ryley joined the ''New York Daily News'' in 2012. Her work exposing racial disparities in the New York Police Department's practice of issuing summonses for low-level offenses resulted in the passage of the Criminal Justice Reform Act.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/city-council-decriminalize-host-offenses-article-1.2190943?cid=bitly|title=EXCLUSIVE: NYC looks to decriminalize minor offenses|work=NY Daily News|access-date=2017-07-08|language=en}}</ref> Her investigation into the police department's use of the nuisance abatement law to push people from their businesses and homes, co-published with ProPublica, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2017 and resulted in the passage of the Nuisance Abatement Fairness Act.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-set-to-pass-sweeping-nuisance-abatement-reforms|title=New York City Set to Pass Sweeping Nuisance Abatement Reforms|date=2017-02-14|work=ProPublica|access-date=2017-07-08|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
== Awards == * 2017, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, "Nuisance Abatement" (presented jointly to the ''New York Daily News'' and ProPublica)<ref>{{cite web | title=Winners| website=The Pulitzer Prizes | url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-daily-news-and-propublica| access-date=15 May 2023}}</ref>
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