From the killing of Trayvon Martin to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, Trymaine Lee has been on the ground reporting some of the largest racial justice stories of the past several years. Lee is a columnist and correspondent at … Read more
In “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead,” being published November 21 by NYU Press, social scientist Jessica M. Fishman probes a double standard in the U.S. media regarding images of death … Read more
In 2002, Mark Schleifstein and a team of reporters in New Orleans wrote “Washing Away,” a five-part series in The Times-Picayune that predicted the devastation of Hurricane Katrina three years later. When the series ran, the public was … Read more
On May 13, the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project awards were presented to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, Harvard history professor Jill Lepore, and Adrienne Berard, a 2013 graduate of the Columbia Journalism School. The three women’s works were selected … Read more