Episode 53: Thomas Lake
Thomas Lake is a senior writer at CNN Digital. He just published a three-story series titled "The Trigger and the Choice," which examines multiple aspects of police shootings. Prior to joining CNN, Lake was the youngest ever senior writer at Sports Illustrated. Some of his most amazing stories include “2 on 5,” which won the Henry Luce Award for most outstanding story for 2008 across all Time Inc. publications; “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill,” which was named one of the 60 best features in the history of Sports Illustrated; and “The Boy Who Died of Football,” which was anthologized in "Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists." Lake has also been anthologized in "Best American Sports Writing" four times. One of his first big projects at CNN was authoring the book, "Unprecedented: The Election that Changed Everything." That book was published just one month after the November 2016 presidential election. Lake also participated in the virtual roundtable discussion, “Getting The Story,” which was published in Creative Nonfiction. That discussion, which Matt Tullis moderated and Lake, Chris Jones, and Ben Montgomery participated in, became the inspiration for Gangrey: The Podcast.