Wesley Lowery Biography
Wesley Lowery is a CBS News correspondent who formerly worked for The Washington Post. He was the primary reporter on the Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” series, which received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016, and the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement (Little, Brown, 2016). In 2017, he joined CNN as a political commentator, and in 2020, he was named a reporter for 60 in 6, a Quibi-produced short-form offshoot of 60 Minutes.
How old is Wesley Lowery? – Age
He was born in 1990 in Woodbridge Township in New Jersey, United States of America. He is 31 years as of 2021.
Where did Wesley Lowery go to school? – Education
Lowery went to Ohio University and Shaker Heights High School. Lowery was editor-in-chief of The Post, the student newspaper, and interned at The Detroit News, The Columbus Dispatch, and The Wall Street Journal.
Wesley Lowery Wife – Family
He was raised by his parents in the United States. He is of African-American ethnicity. There’s no much information about his parents and siblings.
Lowery’s Lover
He’s currently in a relationship with LaToya Morgan. They have not shared of their children yet.
What is Lowery Salary?
He earns an estimated salary of $88,464 annually.
Lowery Net Worth
His net worth has been predicted to be $1,098,247.
Wesley Lowery Career
Lowery worked as a reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times before moving to the Boston Globe in 2013 as a general assignment political reporter, covering stories such as the NFL’s Aaron Hernandez murder trial, Boston’s mayoral campaign, and the manhunt for the Boston marathon bombers. Lowery was selected “Emerging Journalist of the Year” by the National Association of Black Journalists in 2014.
Lowery joined the Washington Post in 2014 and was hailed as a “rising star…a brilliant reporter” by The Washingtonian in 2015, with a track record for “developing deep sources, penning colorful solo pieces, and contributing to team coverage.” In the year 2020, Lowery joined CBS News. Lowery had previously clashed with the managing editors over content in his tweets, so it’s possible that part of the reason for his departure was his dissatisfaction with The Washington Post’s social media policy for journalists, which discouraged some of Lowery’s more provocative comments on Twitter and elsewhere. He works on 60 in 6, a six-minute offshoot of 60 Minutes for Quibi, for CBS News.
The arrest and coverage of the Ferguson riots
Lowery covered the Ferguson protests for The Washington Post in August 2014. Lowery and Huffington Post writer Ryan Reilly were detained in a McDonald’s on August 13. The arrests were criticized by journalism organizations as well as Lowery’s and Reilly’s employers, who called them “deliberate and unjustified attempts to tamper with the press,” as the Columbia Journalism Review put it. Lowery and Reilly were charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer by St. Louis County prosecutors a year later, just before the statute of limitations was supposed to expire. Prosecutors dismissed all charges against Reilly and Lowery in May 2016 in return for a settlement that the reporters would not sue the county.
Project Fatal Force
Lowery was a lead (together with Kimbriell Kelly) on the Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” project, which recorded 990 police shootings in 2015.
The federal government did not have comprehensive, countrywide statistics on police deaths at the time; the most methodical data was gathered by independent, grassroots organizations such as Fatal Encounters, Stolen Lives Project, Operation Ghetto Storm, and Killed by Police.
Lowery and colleagues constructed the Post’s Fatal Force database using these datasets, as well as local newspaper reporting, police enforcement websites, and social media.
Awards
In 2016, the study was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, and in 2017, the Justice Department announced the launch of a pilot program to gather a more comprehensive collection of use-of-force statistics.
Books
They won’t be able to kill us all.
Little, Brown released Lowery’s debut book, They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement, on November 15, 2016.
Lowery’s personal biography is discussed as well as the Black Lives Matter movement in the backdrop of US history.
“His book is electrifying, because it is so brilliantly documented, so frankly recounted, and so obviously the product of a guy who has not developed a callus on his heart,” the New York Times noted of Lowery’s book, noting that he wrote it at the age of 25.
They Can’t Kill Us All earned him the 2017 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.