Doug Bock Clark is an investigative reporter at ProPublica focused on threats to democracy, elections, courts, voting rights, artificial intelligence, and abuses of power. He is based in ProPublica's South unit. A PBS FRONTLINE/ProPublica documentary, which was based on his reporting about the origins of the "Big Lie" that the 2020 election was stolen, won the Edward R. Murrow Award for News Documentary and shared the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.
Prior to ProPublica, Clark wrote for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, WIRED, National Geographic, and numerous other publications. Clark's reporting for the New York Times Magazine helped free two unjustly imprisoned men from a foreign jail and his reporting for GQ magazine, where he was a Correspondent, revealed how the Trump administration had distorted classified intelligence to push the nation toward a confrontation with North Korea. He won the Arthur L. Carter Reporting Award and has been a finalist for the Livingston Award, the Mirror Award and the Excellence in Features Award from the Society of Features Journalists, twice. His work has appeared on numerous best-of-the year lists, and one of his articles was chosen as one of the 10 best articles of the last decade.
Movies based on his work, which he helped produce, include: Assassins, which was a finalist for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary (Hulu); The Last Cruise, which was a finalist for the Emmy Award for Outstanding for Short Documentary (HBO); and The Mission for National Geographic and Disney, which had an international theatrical run.
His first book, The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life, was one of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2019, won the 2019 Lowell Thomas Travel Book Silver Award, and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize. The New York Times praised it as "an immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book."
He has been interviewed about his work on CNN, BBC, NPR, PBS, ABC's 20/20, among many other outlets, and given lectures at numerous universities and institutions, from The Explorer's Club to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
A full bio can be found on the biography page of this website.
Prior to ProPublica, Clark wrote for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, GQ, WIRED, National Geographic, and numerous other publications. Clark's reporting for the New York Times Magazine helped free two unjustly imprisoned men from a foreign jail and his reporting for GQ magazine, where he was a Correspondent, revealed how the Trump administration had distorted classified intelligence to push the nation toward a confrontation with North Korea. He won the Arthur L. Carter Reporting Award and has been a finalist for the Livingston Award, the Mirror Award and the Excellence in Features Award from the Society of Features Journalists, twice. His work has appeared on numerous best-of-the year lists, and one of his articles was chosen as one of the 10 best articles of the last decade.
Movies based on his work, which he helped produce, include: Assassins, which was a finalist for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary (Hulu); The Last Cruise, which was a finalist for the Emmy Award for Outstanding for Short Documentary (HBO); and The Mission for National Geographic and Disney, which had an international theatrical run.
His first book, The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life, was one of The New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2019, won the 2019 Lowell Thomas Travel Book Silver Award, and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize. The New York Times praised it as "an immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book."
He has been interviewed about his work on CNN, BBC, NPR, PBS, ABC's 20/20, among many other outlets, and given lectures at numerous universities and institutions, from The Explorer's Club to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
A full bio can be found on the biography page of this website.
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"A vital, immersive and elegant debut. With glittering prose and a novelist’s knack for storytelling, Clark carries readers to the heart of this community as they try to manage and adapt to the tidal wave of change."― The New York Times Book Review "An immersive and absorbing chronicle that takes the reader deep into the lives of this tribe and... renders their lives, and the choices they face, not just comprehensible but somehow familiar..."―San Francisco Chronicle "A forceful debut... [Clark's] finely wrought, deeply reported, and highly empathetic account is a human-level testament to dignity in the face of loss."―Outside Magazine “I absolutely loved this magnificent book." —Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm |
