Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Nikole Hannah-Jones (born 1976 in the United States ) is an American journalist . Her main topics include structural racial segregation in housing and education and the decline of desegregation . In 2020 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize .

Career

Nikole Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa , USA and completed a bachelor's degree in African American studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana , which she graduated in 1998. She received her Masters in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003 .

As a journalist, she started in 2003 as a reporter for the daily newspaper The News & Observer in Raleigh , where she worked primarily on racial and class issues as well as the re-emerging racial segregation in schools (school segregation) . In the daily newspaper The Oregonian in Portland , they wrote in 2006 until 2011 for various departments . She then worked as an investigative reporter for the ProPublica organization in New York City until 2015 , before moving to the New York Times as a permanent writer .

One of her best-known works is The 1619 Project, which in 2019, marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first slaves, illustrated how slavery shaped most aspects of American history.

In 2015 she founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, which aims to increase the proportion of non-white media professionals.

Hannah-Jones is married with one daughter and lives in Brooklyn .

Awards (selection)

2017: National Magazine Award , Category Public Interest, for Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City
2017: MacArthur Fellowship
2015: Peabody Award , Category This American Life, for The Case for School Desegregation Today
2019: George Polk Award , for The 1619 Project
2020: Pulitzer Prize, Commentary category .

Web links

Commons : Nikole Hannah-Jones - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Individual evidence

↑ Gabrielle Deutch: Writer Hannah-Jones discusses black education, desegregation, and privilege. April 2, 2018, accessed May 6, 2020 .
↑ George Speech | The Oregonian / OregonLive: Two faces of the black American experience. January 17, 2009, accessed May 6, 2020 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Nikole Hannah-Jones - MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Commentary. Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times. In: pulitzer.org. 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020 .
^ The 1619 Project: The 1619 Project . In: The New York Times . August 14, 2019, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).
^ The Best of Nikole Hannah-Jones . In: The New York Times . October 11, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).
^ The Case for School Desegregation Today. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
↑ Past Polk Winners | Long Island University. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Hannah-Jones, Nikole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1976
PLACE OF BIRTH	United States

[1] Gabrielle Deutch: Writer Hannah-Jones discusses black education, desegregation, and privilege. April 2, 2018, accessed May 6, 2020 .

[2] George Speech | The Oregonian / OregonLive: Two faces of the black American experience. January 17, 2009, accessed May 6, 2020 .

[:1-3] A ^b ^c Nikole Hannah-Jones - MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .

[:0-4] The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Commentary. Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times. In: pulitzer.org. 2020, accessed on May 6, 2020 .

[5] The 1619 Project: The 1619 Project . In: The New York Times . August 14, 2019, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).

[6] The Best of Nikole Hannah-Jones . In: The New York Times . October 11, 2017, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).

[7] The Case for School Desegregation Today. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .

[8] Past Polk Winners | Long Island University. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .