Lindsay Crouse
Hi! I'm a journalist and the author of the forthcoming book The Case for Quitting, out Sept. 8 from HarperOne and available for preorder now. It draws on my first career at The New York Times, where I spent 15 years producing films and videos and writing about endurance sports, and asks the question: In a world that prizes persistence, when does perseverance work against us?
I've spent years looking at this question from various angles. Drawing on my own experiences as a competitive athlete, I was lucky to play a role in coverage of women athletes at The Times. The Emmy-nominated video series I produced, Equal Play, broke news by centering female athletes’ untold experiences and led to widespread reform in women’s sports. My reporting exposed the lack of maternity protections that female professional athletes secretly faced at the time (featuring the experiences of Olympians Alysia Montano, Allyson Felix, and Kara Goucher, among others) — the result of a year-long investigation into industry standards, contracts, and the undisclosed toll of work and motherhood on female athletes. Combining my backgrounds in both video production and text reporting, the package changed maternity norms across the industry, including at Nike, which created a new policy to ensure pay for pregnant athletes over 18 months.
In my years with Op-Docs, The Times’s series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers, I produced nearly 400 short films, winning 4 Emmy awards (more than 20 nominations), 4 Oscar nominations, and 2 Peabody awards. Merging my background in women’s sports and documentary, I commissioned the first Oscar-winner for The Times (“The Queen of Basketball,” 2021). I'm a 2:53 marathoner and ran cross country at Harvard.
Here is some of my work you may have seen in The Times:
"I'm 35 and Faster than I Ever Thought Possible"
"How the 'Shalane Effect' Works"
"Why Men Quit and Women Don't"
You can contact me at lindsay.crouse@gmail.com
I've spent years looking at this question from various angles. Drawing on my own experiences as a competitive athlete, I was lucky to play a role in coverage of women athletes at The Times. The Emmy-nominated video series I produced, Equal Play, broke news by centering female athletes’ untold experiences and led to widespread reform in women’s sports. My reporting exposed the lack of maternity protections that female professional athletes secretly faced at the time (featuring the experiences of Olympians Alysia Montano, Allyson Felix, and Kara Goucher, among others) — the result of a year-long investigation into industry standards, contracts, and the undisclosed toll of work and motherhood on female athletes. Combining my backgrounds in both video production and text reporting, the package changed maternity norms across the industry, including at Nike, which created a new policy to ensure pay for pregnant athletes over 18 months.
In my years with Op-Docs, The Times’s series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers, I produced nearly 400 short films, winning 4 Emmy awards (more than 20 nominations), 4 Oscar nominations, and 2 Peabody awards. Merging my background in women’s sports and documentary, I commissioned the first Oscar-winner for The Times (“The Queen of Basketball,” 2021). I'm a 2:53 marathoner and ran cross country at Harvard.
Here is some of my work you may have seen in The Times:
"I'm 35 and Faster than I Ever Thought Possible"
"How the 'Shalane Effect' Works"
"Why Men Quit and Women Don't"
You can contact me at lindsay.crouse@gmail.com