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William Jelani Cobb (born August 21, 1969) is an American writer, author, educator, and dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
Jelani Cobb, Ph.D., leads Columbia Journalism School as the Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism. Cobb first joined the faculty in 2016 as founding director of the Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights before becoming the fourteenth Dean of the School.
Jun 29, 2023 · Jelani Cobb is a contributor to The New Yorker since 2012, covering race, politics, history, and culture. He is also the author of "The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress" and the dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
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Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018.
Sep 13, 2021 · Jelani Cobb, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the co-editor of “The Essential Kerner Commission Report.” He is the dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
Mar 9, 2016 · NPR's Kelly McEvers spoke with Jelani Cobb, who recently wrote an article in the New Yorker about Black Lives Matter, how the movement started and where it stands today.
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May 13, 2022 · Jelani Cobb, a journalist and historian, will become the next dean of Columbia Journalism School in August 2022. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a professor of journalism and civil rights, and a co-editor of an anthology of Black life in America.
