Ethan Shanfeld Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and creator of New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” announced that she has turned down a tenured teaching position at the University of North Carolina and has instead accepted a faculty role at Howard University.She made the announcement Tuesday on “CBS This Morning” with Gayle King.Hannah-Jones will fill the newly-created Knight Chair in Race and Journalism and will also found the brand new Center for Journalism and Democracy, which will focus on equipping aspiring journalists with the “investigative skills and historical and analytical expertise needed to cover the crisis our democracy is facing.”She will be joined by Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of “Between the World.
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