Jelani Cobb - Journalism as a Calling, Faith as a Compass

Scott talks to Columbia Journalism School Dean and New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb. His articles on race, the police and injustice won him the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. And in 2018 he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in for Commentary. Jelani has also received fellowships from the Fullbright and Ford foundations.

When he became Journalism Dean in 2022, Jelani had been teaching at Columbia since 2016. And when he was made a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2015, Jelani had been contributing articles on race, politics, history and culture, since 2012. In 2022, with New Yorker Editor-In-Chief David Remnick, he helped edit The Matter of Black Lives, an anthology of the magazine’s writing on race in America.

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