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“Over the last decade, I’ve seen Sarah use a rigorous journalistic approach—including uncompromisingly ethical reporting and thorough fact checking—to tell compelling stories in new narrative formats. I’m always impressed with her ability to open up complex and opaque issues, both to understand them herself and to translate that insight for audiences.” |
JOURNALISM (Print, Online and Radio)
- 2021: Atlantic, “THEY CALLED FOR HELP. THEY’D ALWAYS REGRET IT."
- 2021: Reveal podcast, “How the Pandemic Changed Us” (co-reported with Andrew Stelzer)
- 2015: Daily Beast, “I Was Jailed as an Ecoterrorist—But I Was Set Up by the FBI”
- 2015: Daily Beast, “California’s Secret Solitary Courts”
- 2015: Daily Beast, “Why the U.S. Won’t Let the U.N. Look Inside Its Prisons”
- 2015: Daily Beast, “Here’s What the World Will Look Like After Mass Incarceration”
- 2015: Daily Beast, “Facebook Now a Place for Prisoners, Too.”
- 2014: Daily Beast, “‘Progressive Jail’ Is a 21st-Century Hell, Inmates Complain.” This article resulted in several organizations investigating Cheshire County Jail’s practices through the Freedom of Information Act.
- 2014: Mother Jones, “How We Survived Two Years of Hell as Hostages in Tehran”
- 2012: Daily Beast, “Iranian Lawyer Fasts for Her 13-Year-Old Daughter’s Rights from Prison”
- 2009: New American Media, “Families Shout Their Love Across Minefields in Golan Heights”
OP-EDs (print and online)
- 2023: SF Chronicle, "Oakland baker Jen Angel died believing in restorative justice. Here’s what that means."
- 2020: SF Chronicle, “California’s Incarcerated Firefighters: Fighting for Their Dignity and Our Safety”
- 2020: SF Chronicle, “Coronavirus Pandemic Leaves Us Bound Together by Our Isolation”
- 2020: SF Chronicle, “Coronavirus Crisis Exposes Public Safety Risk of Mass Incarceration”
- 2019: SF Chronicle, “California Prisons Must End Inhumane Practice of Solitary Confinement”
- 2015: Reuters, “I was held in Iran for 13 months: This is why I think Jason Rezaian may be freed”
- 2015: Book Review, Companiers: Story of Zapatista Women
- 2014: Daily Beast, “One Former Hostage Says Negotiate with ISIS—and Pay Ransoms If You Must”
- 2013: SFGate, “Imprisoned in Iran for the Greater Good? Really?”
- 2011: NY Times, “Tortured by Solitude”
- 2011: Daily Beast, “Sarah Shourd Sounds Off”
- 2021: “The House Where Our Stories Live: How Storytelling in Different Mediums Can Affect Scale, Audience, and Impact”
- 2019: “Promoting Transparency and Trust in Journalism: How the Careful Use of Creative Tools Can Strengthen Storytelling”
- 2019: “Thinking in Multiple Frames: How journalism Can Be More Collaborative”
Blog: In Real Time:
- 2020: “Every Morning I Wake Up to a Different Earth: A Lyrical Essay by Sarah Shourd”
- 2020: “Life Is Constantly Calling Us to a Bigger Story: Reorganizing Society Around Care”
- 2020: “Bound Up in Our Isolation: Finding a Way Out of Our Collective Suffering”
- 2020: “How Art Gives Incarcerated Women Tools to Save Their Own Lives: Join a Pulitzer Talk on Visionary Work of Rhodessa Jones”
- 2020: “Theater in a Pandemic of Loneliness”
- 2022: The People on Our Bus: Anthony Michael Jefferson (“AJ”)
- 2022: A Summer of Profound Impact