Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones
Born Nikole Sheri Hannah
(1976-04-09) April 9, 1976
Waterloo, Iowa
Nationality American
Other names Nikole Hannah
Alma mater University of Notre Dame
UNC Chapel Hill
Occupation Journalist
Writer
Years active 2003-present
Known for Investigative journalism
Spouse(s) Faraji Hannah-Jones
Children 1

Nikole Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976)[1] is an investigative journalist[2] known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States. In April 2015, she became a staff writer for The New York Times.[3]


Early life

Hannah-Jones grew up in Waterloo, Iowa, to father Milton Hannah, who is African-American, and mother Cheryl A. Novotny, whose family roots are from Czechoslovakia and England.[4] She is the second of three sisters.[5] Her father's family came from Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region, and moved to Iowa in 1947, along with many other African-Americans who came to Iowa from Mississippi, when her father was two years old.[6]

Hannah-Jones and her sister attended almost all-white schools across town as part of a voluntary program of desegregation busing.[7] She wrote for the high school newspaper and graduated from West High School in 1994.[8]

Hannah-Jones has a bachelor's degree in History and African-American Studies from University of Notre Dame, which she received in 1998. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication with a master's degree in 2003, where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow.[9][10]

Career

In 2003, Hannah-Jones began her writing career working covering the education beat, which included the predominantly African American Durham Public Schools, for the Raleigh News & Observer, a position she held for three years.[7]

In 2006, Hannah-Jones moved to Portland, Oregon, where she wrote for The Oregonian for six years. During this time she covered an enterprise assignment that included feature work, then the demographics beat, and then the government & census beats.[4]

In 2007, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 Watts Riots, Hannah-Jones wrote about its impact on the community for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, also known as the Kerner Commission.[11]

From 2008 to 2009, Hannah-Jones received a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies which enabled her to travel to Cuba to study universal healthcare and Cuba’s educational system under Raul Castro.[12][13]

In 2011, she joined the nonprofit news organization ProPublica, which is based in New York City, where she covered civil rights and continued research she started in Oregon on redlining and in-depth investigative reporting on the lack of enforcement of the Fair Housing Act for minorities.[2] Hannah-Jones also spent time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the effects of Brown v. Board of Education had little effect.[14]

In 2015, she became a staff reporter for The New York Times.[3]

Hannah-Jones is recognized as an authority on topics such as racial segregation, desegregation and resegregation in American schools[15][16] and housing discrimination, and has spoken about these issues on national public radio broadcasts.[17][18]

Her stories have been quoted in numerous other publications as being particularly important regarding race relations.[19] Hannah-Jones reported on the school district where teenager Michael Brown had been shot, one of the "most segregated, impoverished districts in the entire state" of Missouri.[20][21] Reviewer Laura Moser of Slate magazine praised her report on school resegregation, which showed how educational inequality may have been a factor in the unfortunate death of Brown.[22]

Personal life

Hannah-Jones lives in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with her husband, Faraji Hannah-Jones, and their daughter.[23]

Awards

Works and publications

References

  1. ↑ "Nikole Sheri Hannah-Jones - United States Public Records". FamilySearch. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "About Us: Nikole Hannah-Jones". ProPublica. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 Silverstein, Jake (1 April 2015). "Nikole Hannah-Jones Joins The New York Times Magazine". The New York Times Com,pany. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. 1 2 Rede, George (17 January 2009). "Two faces of the black American experience". The Oregonian. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Life Legacy: Milton Hannah". Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (8 July 2014). "Ghosts of Greenwood". ProPublica. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  7. 1 2 Glass, Ira; Hannah-Jones, Nikole (31 July 2015). "562: The Problem We All Live With". This American Life. WBEZ. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "About". Nikole Hannah-Jones. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  9. ↑ McCoy, Nilagia (15 October 2015). "Investigating racial injustice with Nikole Hannah-Jones". Journalist's Resource. Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (15 October 2015). "Investigating Racial Injustice". Shorenstein Center. Harvard University. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  11. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (Spring 2008). "Part Three: Los Angeles/Watts - In 1965, Watts burned – and the people cheered" (PDF). Kerner Plus 40 Report. University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Center for Africana Studies & the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies at North Carolina A&T State University. pp. 28–32. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  12. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (2009). "Stories Inside the Black-White Achievement Gap. Part 1: What it is and why it persists: Closing the achievement gap: A matter of national survival". Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  13. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (2009). "Stories Inside the Black-White Achievement Gap. Part 3: Cuba: How all children learn in a mostly-black land: Cuban School Officials Put Premium On Health Of Students". Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  14. ↑ Shaikh, Nermeen; Goodman, Amy; Hannah-Jones, Nikole (23 April 2014). "Jim Crow in the Classroom: New Report Finds Segregation Lives on in U.S. Schools". Democracy Now. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  15. ↑ Oputu, Edirin (2 May 2014). "A laurel to ProPublica: A superlative investigative piece examines the resegregation of America's schools". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  16. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (27 February 2015). "Gentrification doesn't fix inner-city schools". Grist. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  17. ↑ Demby, Gene (2 December 2013). "A Battle For Fair Housing Still Raging, But Mostly Forgotten". NPR. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  18. ↑ Howard, Marcus E. (8 August 2015). "Minnesota's achievement gap debated at NABJ conference". Star Tribune. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  19. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (5 November 2015). "'Apostrophes': Nikole Hannah-Jones on Race, Education and Inequality, at Longreads Story Night". Longreads Story Night. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  20. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (12 August 2014). "How the Media Missed the Mark in Coverage of Michael Brown's Killing". Essence. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  21. ↑ Brown, Jeffrey; Hannah-Jones, Nikole; Cashin, Sheryll (11 August 2015). "Why school districts like Michael Brown's have suffered 'rapid resegregation'". PBS. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  22. ↑ Moser, Laura (4 August 2015). "There's Another Racist Tragedy in St. Louis That Nobody Talks About". Slate. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  23. ↑ Hannah-Jones, Nikole (March 2015). "A Letter From Black America: Yes, we fear the police. Here's why.". Politico. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  24. ↑ "This American Life Wins December Sidney for Shining a Light on Racial Profiling in the Housing Market". The Sidney Hillman Foundation. December 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  25. ↑ "Tobenkin Award: Past Winners - 2013". Columbia University. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  26. ↑ Turner, Aprill (23 April 2015). "Nikole Hannah-Jones Named NABJ 2015 Journalist of the Year". National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  27. ↑ Prince, Richard (10 August 2015). "NABJ "Journalist of Year" Says to Tell Blacks' Stories". Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  28. ↑ Walsh, Mark (21 April 2015). "ProPublica Report on Resegregation Takes Top Education Writers' Award". Education Week. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  29. ↑ "61. Nikole Hannah-Jones". The Root. 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  30. ↑ Barron, James (14 February 2016). "New York Times Journalists Among Winners of 2015 Polk Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  31. ↑ Griesbach, Rebecca (25 July 2015). "Guest Columnist: Young people can't wait on change". The Tuscaloosa News. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
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