# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-dwyer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:56:41.395Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-dwyer"
name: "Jim Dwyer"
slug: "jim-dwyer"
description: "Jim Dwyer was an American journalist and author. He was a reporter and columnist with The New York Times, and the author or co-author of six non-fiction books. A native New Yorker, Dwyer wrote columns for New York Newsday and the New York Daily News before joining the Times. He appeared in the 2012 documentary film Central Park Five and was portrayed on stage in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy (2013). Dwyer had won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his \"compelling and compassionate columns about New York City\" and was also a member of the New York Newsday team that won the 1992 Pulitzer for spot news reporting for coverage of a subway derailment in Manhattan."
tagline: "American journalist (1957-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Dwyer%2C_November_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-03-04"
deathDate: "2020-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.14
  momentum:             2.022471910112359
  historical:           8.545861333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/jimdwyernyt"
    handle:    "jimdwyernyt"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.nytimes.com/by/jim-dwyer"
sources:
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    title: "Jim Dwyer (jurnalist)"
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    title: "جیم دوایەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dwyer_(journalist)"
    title: "Jim Dwyer (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dwyer"
    title: "Jim Dwyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dwyer"
    title: "Jim Dwyer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dwyer"
    title: "Jim Dwyer"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dwyer_(journalist)"
    title: "Jim Dwyer (journalist)"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dwyer"
    title: "Jim Dwyer"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3178791"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump