How smart phones and social media are democratizing the press and empowering people of color

Tuesday, January 26 at 7:00 PM in Straub Hall, 156

“theBEseries is proud to partner with the School of Journalism and Communication to welcome Nikole Hannah-Jones to the University of Oregon. Nikole is an award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine. Nikole has spent the last four years investigating the way racial segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy. This talk focuses on current events as they relate to the role of the press, the police, and the people.

Nikole was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists and was also named to The Root 100. Her reporting has won several national awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, the Hechinger Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting, Online News Association awards, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award.

Along with The New York Times, her reporting has been featured in ProPublica, The Atlantic Magazine, Huffington Post, Essence Magazine, The Week Magazine, Grist, Politico Magazine and on Face the Nation, This American Life, NPR, the Tom Joyner Morning Show, MSNBC, C-SPAN, Democracy Now and radio stations across the country.”

For more information, visit her website