Dan Slepian — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Pulitzer Prize finalist in Audio Reporting (2024)
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary (2025)
Senior Investigative Producer at Dateline NBC
Author of "The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice"
Host of podcasts including "13 Alibis," "Letters from Sing Sing," and "The Last Appeal"
Graduated from Stony Brook University in 1992

Biography

Dan Slepian is an American journalist, author, podcaster, and senior investigative producer at Dateline NBC. He is recognized for his reporting on wrongful convictions and the U.S.

criminal justice system. His work has earned national recognition, including being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Audio Reporting (2024) and winning the News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Documentary (2025) for The Sing Sing Chronicles.