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Dafna Linzer

Dafna Linzer was a senior reporter at ProPublica. She is the author of the ongoing series "Shades of Mercy" on racial bias in presidential pardons.

Dafna Linzer was a senior reporter at ProPublica. She is the author of the ongoing series “Shades of Mercy” on racial bias in presidential pardons. The series was a finalist for Harvard University’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors.Her work on Guantanamo and detention in the Obama presidency won the 2010 Overseas Press Club award for General Excellence and received honorable mention for the American Bar Associationâs Silver Gavel award.

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