Pulitzer Prize Winner Nikole Hannah-Jones Returning to Join UNC Faculty

Posted May 18, 2021
Nikole Hannah-Jones 2003 (MA), the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant” recipient who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, will join the University of North Carolina's Hussman School of Journalism and Media in July as the Knight Chair in race and investigative journalism. (Carolina Alumni Review)

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