Prokupecz briefed journalists at the 2023 Crime Coverage Summit in January 2023: What You Learn Covering Too Many Mass Shootings.
Shimon Prokupecz, CNN’s senior crime and justice correspondent, has reported on the Uvalde school shooting (2022), Brooklyn subway shooting (2022), Buffalo supermarket shooting (2022), Oxford Michigan school shooting (2021), George Floyd Protests (2020), Mueller Investigation (2017), the Justice Department bringing charges against Senator Robert Menendez (2017), Pulse Nightclub shooting (2016), and more. Prokupecz was a member of the Emmy-award-winning team that captured the FBI raid on Roger Stone’s home in 2019.
Prokupecz began his CNN career in 2013 as a justice producer in Washington, D.C., before relocating to the network’s New York bureau as a law enforcement producer where he covered the New York Police Department, FBI, and various law enforcement agencies in the Northeast U.S. Prior to joining CNN, Prokupecz worked as a producer at WNBC and as an assignment editor at WABC in New York City. He previously served as a paralegal in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. Prokupecz is from Brooklyn, New York and is a graduate of Hunter College.