The Sunday Read: 'Jim Dwyer, About New York'

<p>Jim Dwyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times, died earlier this month. He was 63.</p><p>Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Jim was drawn to stories about discrimination, wrongly convicted prisoners and society’s mistreated outcasts. From 2007, he wrote The Times’s “About New York” column — when asked whether he had the best job in journalism, he responded, “I believe I do.”</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/dan-barry" target="_blank">Dan Barry</a>, a reporter for The Times who also wrote for the column, has called Jim a “newsman of consequence” and “a determined voice for the vulnerable.” Today, he reads two stories written by Jim, his friend and colleague.</p><p><em>These stories were written by </em><strong><em>Jim Dwyer</em></strong><em> and read by Dan Barry. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, </em><a href="https://www.audm.com/?utm_source=nyt&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=jim_dwyer_new_york" target="_blank"><em>download Audm for iPhone or Android.</em></a></p>