# Caitlin Dickerson

caitlin dickerson is an American journalist. She is a national immigration reporter for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. She previously worked as an investigative reporter for NPR. She was awarded a 2015 Peabody Award for an NPR special series on race-based testing of mustard gas on American troops in WWII. == Career == Dickerson began her professional career as an intern at NPR. Following her internship, she worked at NPR as a producer, before landing a role on NPR's Investigations Desk.In 2016, Dickerson reported on the testing of mustard gas by the U.S. military on American troops during WWII, in which subjects were grouped by race. Her reporting, published as a two-part special investigation by NPR, revealed that the Department of Veteran Affairs had broken promises it had made in the 1990s to seek out and provide compensation to veterans who had suffered permanent injuries as a result of the testing.