{"id":11439,"date":"2022-06-08T18:52:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=11439"},"modified":"2025-01-09T13:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:19:57","slug":"brooke-williams","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/profile\/brooke-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Brooke Williams, <\/span>affiliated faculty with the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), <span>is an investigative reporter and educator who specializes in data journalism. Her work has contributed to a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, a George Polk Award, and a Gerald Loeb Award, among many others. Williams&#8217; students help cover the city of Newton for the Boston Globe, and she co-runs the Justice Media Computational Journalism co-Lab, a collaboration among Spark! CDS, COM, and the Hub where computer science and journalism students and faculty produce data-driven investigations for local and national news outlets.<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span>As a contributor to The New York Times, Williams co-authored and built the database behind a series of front-page investigations into think tanks, foreign governments, corporations and influence. As a reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, Williams was on the team that produced \u201cWindfalls of War,\u201d an award-winning investigation into defense contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. She also co-authored \u201cHarmful Error: Investigating America\u2019s Local Prosecutors\u201d and contributed a chapter to \u201cThe Buying of the President 2004,\u201d a New York Times bestselling book. Early in her career, she worked as an investigative reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune where her collaborative investigations into wildfire cleanup, city finances, and other issues had a lasting impact.<\/span><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><span>Before joining Boston University, she was a residential journalism fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Her internationally recognized data-driven investigations have appeared in print and online as well as on radio and TV. Williams currently is a contributor to The Intercept and working on a multi-year investigation into federal prosecutors that utilizes machine learning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15145,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11610,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/11439\/revisions\/11610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}