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By HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) â Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones used major philanthropic donors to build her future as a tenured professor at Howard University, just as other major donors sought to stymie the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black investigative reporter at the University of North Carolina. Backed by $20 million in donations, Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday the establishment of the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard to increase diversity in journalism. She also said that political interference from Arkansas newspaper publisher Walter Hussman, who pledged $25 million to UNC s journalism school and whose name adorns its building, resulted in questions about her receiving tenure, which she was belatedly offered last week following an outcry from students and faculty members. ....
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is going to Howard University. The New York Times reporter and creator of “The 1619 Project” will be the new Knight Chair in Race and Reporting at the revered historically Black college. Her decision comes after the board of trustees at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill her alma mater that she loved denied her tenure, prompting an outcry that the decision was based on her race, gender and reporting on racial inequality. “The burden of working for racial justice is laid on the very people bearing the brunt of the injustice, and not the powerful people who maintain it. I say to you: I refuse,” she wrote in a statement. ....
On Tuesday, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Black investigative reporter for the New York Times and 2020 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for her groundbreaking work on the 1619 Project, announced on CBS This Morning with Gayle King that she has decided to decline an offer of tenure from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill amidst controversy. She will join the faculty of Howard University as Knight Chair in Race and Journalism to help educate the next generation of Black students. Knight Chairs in Journalism are top professionals who bridge the newsroom-classroom divide with innovative teaching, major outreach projects and their own journalism. Award winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates author, former national correspondent for The Atlantic and Howard University Alum will also join the faculty as the Sterling Brown Chair in the English Department. Both are recipients of the MacArthur Genius Fellowship award. He will begin the position following completion of several current o ....
Hannah-Jones announced she will join the historically-black Howard University She rejected the University of North Carolina s tenure offer after a months-long controversy over her appointment UNC had stopped her tenure application due to her lack of teaching experience and amid criticism over the 1619 Project s inaccuracies and generalizations Ugly brawl erupted at trustee meeting after group of protesters stormed session Hannah-Jones had claimed a powerful donor blocked her from life role ....
Philanthropies eagerly back journalist Hannah-Jones HALELUYA HADERO and GLENN GAMBOA, AP Business Writers July 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5FILE - In this Tuesday, July 6, 2021, file photo, Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is interviewed at her home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Backed by $20 million in donations, Hannah-Jones announced Tuesday that she will establish the Center for Journalism and Democracy at Howard to increase diversity in journalism. Hannah-Jones used major philanthropic donors to build her future as a tenured professor, just as other major donors sought to stymie the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black investigative reporter at the University of North Carolina.John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less ....