Jill Leovy

Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is best known for Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her award-winning 2015 book about homicide in Los Angeles.[2] Ghettoside was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.[3] It won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 85th Annual California Book Awards.[4] It also won the Rindehour Book Prize.

Leovy spent 24 years as a reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times.[5] She was let go in 2017.[6]

Leovy has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune.[7]

She is a Senior Fellow at USC's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.[8] She is also a fellow of the Department of Sociology at Harvard.

Books
  • Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (2015)

References
  1. "Jill Leovy | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy". communicationleadership.usc.edu.
  2. Gonnerman, Jennifer (January 21, 2015). "Jill Leovy's 'Ghettoside'" – via NYTimes.com.
  3. "National Book Critics Circle: awards". bookcritics.org. Archived from the original on 2015-10-18. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
  4. "85th Annual California Book Awards | Commonwealth Club". www.commonwealthclub.org.
  5. "Jill Leovy". Los Angeles Times.
  6. August 21, Kevin Roderick |; Pm, 2017 9:25. "Reporter Jill Leovy and admin assistant also let go by LA Times". LA Observed.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  7. "Articles by Jill Leovy | Freelance Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com.
  8. "Award Winning Journalist and Bestselling Author Jill Leovy Joins CCLP as Senior Fellow | USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy". communicationleadership.usc.edu.


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