Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones is a seasoned investigative reporter covering policies and politics that maintain segregation. She currently writes for the New York Times Magazine but has written for ProPublica, Politico, The Atlantic and this American Life. Her reporting has won several national awards and Tuesday, she was at the Missouri School of Journalism.
This fall at MU saw activism and campus protests that made national headlines and the resignations of former UM system President Tim Wolfe and former MU Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin. Jones spent the day talking to students, faculty and staff in the journalism school about how to cover these issues.
"What’s very clear is that we are in a unique time, probably a time we haven’t seen for a couple of decades where race and civil rights and racial inequality is really at the forefront of our country’s attention and also increasingly in the forefront of coverage of the media," Jones said.
Jones’ talk this afternoon was called “Covering Racial Injustice in the age of Black Lives Matter.”
"What I’ll be talking about is specifically trying to give tools to journalists about how to better cover these issues and particularly cover them in a way that is not just about writing about racial disparities and that they exist…"