Jill Leovy
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Jill Leovy is an American journalist and nonfiction writer.[1] She is best known for the non-fiction book Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, her 2015 New York Times best-seller about homicide in Los Angeles.[2] Leovy argues in Ghettoside that more effort must be given to arresting and incarcerating perpetrators of inner-city murders, because "impunity for the murder of black men remained America’s great, though mostly invisible, race problem."[3]
Leovy spent 24 years as a reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times.[4] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The American Scholar.[5]
She is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy[6] and a fellow with the Department of Sociology at Harvard.
