Jacob Kushner
@jacobkushner.bsky.social
International Journalist - https://linktr.ee/JacobKushner
Author: LOOK AWAY - https://bit.ly/LookAwayBook
Visiting Professor, lecturer - Columbia Journalism School, University of Wisconsin - http://bit.ly/3TmfeAC
https://jacobkushner.com/
Author: LOOK AWAY - https://bit.ly/LookAwayBook
Visiting Professor, lecturer - Columbia Journalism School, University of Wisconsin - http://bit.ly/3TmfeAC
https://jacobkushner.com/
Layoffs at CBS, NBC, and Teen Vogue show a shift in newsroom priorities away from the promises of 2020:
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Has the media reached the end of its DEI era?
Layoffs at CBS, NBC, and Teen Vogue show a shift in newsroom priorities away from the promises of 2020.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Layoffs at CBS, NBC, and Teen Vogue show a shift in newsroom priorities away from the promises of 2020:
@riddhisetty.bsky.social for @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
@riddhisetty.bsky.social for @columjournreview.bsky.social
www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
Guantánamo's Secret History — Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to use the military base to incarcerate migrants. www.thedial.world/articles/new... @thedialmag.bsky.social
Guantánamo's Secret History — The Dial
Trump isn't the first president to use the military base for the U.S.'s dirty secrets
www.thedial.world
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Guantánamo's Secret History — Trump isn’t the first U.S. president to use the military base to incarcerate migrants. www.thedial.world/articles/new... @thedialmag.bsky.social
Kenya’s Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights - Anthony Langat for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Kenya’s Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights
Indigenous Ogiek say they are being evicted from their ancestral land to facilitate trading schemes.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Kenya’s Growing Carbon Market Is a Setback for Indigenous Land Rights - Anthony Langat for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
“Am I Now in Exile?” Fleeing Bukele, by El Faro journalists for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Fleeing Bukele — The Dial
Journalists in El Salvador are under heightened scrutiny. Many have been forced to leave.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Am I Now in Exile?” Fleeing Bukele, by El Faro journalists for @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Reposted by Jacob Kushner
The feature focuses on how Canaan, Haiti's residents built their city brick by brick following the nation's 2010 apocalyptic earthquake, only to experience the fall of their nation.
Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/
Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/
Canaan rose from an earthquake. Can it survive Haiti’s fall?
Questions come with building a city: How do we electrify homes? Who will form a government? Can police protect us from gangs?
haiti.longlead.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The feature focuses on how Canaan, Haiti's residents built their city brick by brick following the nation's 2010 apocalyptic earthquake, only to experience the fall of their nation.
Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/
Read AN UNNATURAL DISASTER, by @jacobkushner.bsky.social, today: haiti.longlead.com/
Israel has now killed at least 184 journalists in Palestine--at least 26 deliberately. For @columjournreview.bsky.social, here's what nearly two dozen journalists and human rights experts say we must do: www.cjr.org/feature/urge... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @azmatzahra.bsky.social
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
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August 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Israel has now killed at least 184 journalists in Palestine--at least 26 deliberately. For @columjournreview.bsky.social, here's what nearly two dozen journalists and human rights experts say we must do: www.cjr.org/feature/urge... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social @azmatzahra.bsky.social
In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence - For @hammerandhope.bsky.social Nanjala Nyabola chronicles Kenyan President @williamruto.bsky.social murderous regime: hammerandhope.org/article/keny...
In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence
What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence - For @hammerandhope.bsky.social Nanjala Nyabola chronicles Kenyan President @williamruto.bsky.social murderous regime: hammerandhope.org/article/keny...
I'm honored to be awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2025 Forward Award! Check out the other recipients uwalumni.com/about/alumni... and read my write-up here: uwalumni.com/news/jacob-k... @wisalumni.bsky.social @uwsjmc.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I'm honored to be awarded the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2025 Forward Award! Check out the other recipients uwalumni.com/about/alumni... and read my write-up here: uwalumni.com/news/jacob-k... @wisalumni.bsky.social @uwsjmc.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social
URGENT: My good friend of 20 years, the journalist @alecluhn.bsky.social , is missing. Friends in Norway: please reach out to anyone you know who was hiking Ullensvang on the northern edge of Folgefonna since last week. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Rescuers in Norway resume search for journalist missing in wilderness
Bad weather hampers search for Alec Luhn after he set out for solo hike in remote Folgefonna national park
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August 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
URGENT: My good friend of 20 years, the journalist @alecluhn.bsky.social , is missing. Friends in Norway: please reach out to anyone you know who was hiking Ullensvang on the northern edge of Folgefonna since last week. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
As Kenya’s protests intensified, two friends bled on opposite sides. By @khoureld.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... "Young Kenyans continue to risk their lives in protests over corruption and police brutality. Others are being recruited as “goons” to menace the protesters."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/25/kenya-protests-gen-z-goons-police/"Young
July 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
As Kenya’s protests intensified, two friends bled on opposite sides. By @khoureld.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... "Young Kenyans continue to risk their lives in protests over corruption and police brutality. Others are being recruited as “goons” to menace the protesters."
Misplaced Bodies and Mishandled Funds: recent Columbia Journalism graduate @tanyaraghu.bsky.social on the Repatriation of Deceased Immigrants, for @documentedny.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Misplaced Bodies and Mishandled Funds: recent Columbia Journalism graduate @tanyaraghu.bsky.social on the Repatriation of Deceased Immigrants, for @documentedny.bsky.social
For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
For The Dial, I blurbed The Lucky Ones, by Zara Chowdhary. Check out all of The Dial's Best Books of Summer 2025: www.thedial.world/summer-readi... @thedialmag.bsky.social @awarazara.bsky.social
"Understanding the costs of a war should be an obligation of every citizen of every state that wages one.” -Azmat Khan, This Alabaster Grave, a new photobook by Cengiz Yar on life, death, and humanity in Mosul, Iraq. @azmatzahra.bsky.social @cengizyar.com www.cengizyar.com/book/this-al...
June 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Understanding the costs of a war should be an obligation of every citizen of every state that wages one.” -Azmat Khan, This Alabaster Grave, a new photobook by Cengiz Yar on life, death, and humanity in Mosul, Iraq. @azmatzahra.bsky.social @cengizyar.com www.cengizyar.com/book/this-al...
"It’s not uncommon now to find African students in China sharing Nigerian jollof or Ethiopian injera while discussing Beijing’s censorship of the internet." China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders @lattif.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...
China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders
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June 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
"It’s not uncommon now to find African students in China sharing Nigerian jollof or Ethiopian injera while discussing Beijing’s censorship of the internet." China’s Quiet Win: Outmaneuvering U.S. for Africa’s Future Leaders @lattif.bsky.social for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...
‘You Leave with Nothing’: Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision. Read this urgent piece by my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (now alumna 👩🎓) Béatrice Vallières: documentedny.com/2025/06/05/h...
'You Leave with Nothing': Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision - Documented
As humanitarian protections vanish overnight, thousands of Haitians in the U.S. weigh the dangers of detention against the risks of returning to a country in crisis.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘You Leave with Nothing’: Haitians Face Impossible Choice After Supreme Court Decision. Read this urgent piece by my @columbiajournalism.bsky.social student (now alumna 👩🎓) Béatrice Vallières: documentedny.com/2025/06/05/h...
1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books. Congrats to my mentor, and colleague, Sam Freedman on an incredible career. Great writeup by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books
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May 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
1 Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books. Congrats to my mentor, and colleague, Sam Freedman on an incredible career. Great writeup by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b... @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
The Human Zoo — In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals. www.thedial.world/articles/new... “Indeed, one might be shocked to see this African safari on French soil." @thedialmag.bsky.social
The Human Zoo — The Dial
In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The Human Zoo — In the 1990s, a French theme park exhibited musicians from Côte d’Ivoire alongside exotic animals. www.thedial.world/articles/new... “Indeed, one might be shocked to see this African safari on French soil." @thedialmag.bsky.social
"In Pinellas County, Florida, a man on trial for killing an attorney told a judge he needed more time to find legal representation." @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/2025/05/week...
Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine
It was reported that ravioli had been banned from being served to the College of Cardinals for fear that the stuffed pasta might contain secret messages, an MIT professor calculated a 90 percent proba...
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May 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"In Pinellas County, Florida, a man on trial for killing an attorney told a judge he needed more time to find legal representation." @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/2025/05/week...
Even better: Check out the competition! I'm in good company, with incredible reporting by Ryan Brown for @thedialmag.bsky.social Dana Hourany on Lebanon's lost villages, & Forbidden Stories for investigating Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza. @oneworldmedia.bsky.social haiti.longlead.com
Canaan rose from an earthquake. Can it survive Haiti’s fall?
Questions come with building a city: How do we electrify homes? Who will form a government? Can police protect us from gangs?
Haiti.longlead.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Even better: Check out the competition! I'm in good company, with incredible reporting by Ryan Brown for @thedialmag.bsky.social Dana Hourany on Lebanon's lost villages, & Forbidden Stories for investigating Israel's killing of journalists in Gaza. @oneworldmedia.bsky.social haiti.longlead.com
Honored to be shortlisted for the One World Media Print Award for my 8-year Haiti investigation, An Unnatural Disaster, along with photographer Allison Shelley & editor Pooja Bhatia! Haiti.longlead.com @longlead.com with support from the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @oneworldmedia.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Honored to be shortlisted for the One World Media Print Award for my 8-year Haiti investigation, An Unnatural Disaster, along with photographer Allison Shelley & editor Pooja Bhatia! Haiti.longlead.com @longlead.com with support from the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @oneworldmedia.bsky.social
One year ago today: I published my book, Look Away, about a plot to rid Germany of immigrants. Sadly, in the U.S. and across the world, it's as timely now as ever before. bit.ly/LookAwayBook
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May 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
One year ago today: I published my book, Look Away, about a plot to rid Germany of immigrants. Sadly, in the U.S. and across the world, it's as timely now as ever before. bit.ly/LookAwayBook
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Congrats to my former journalism student, 2025 Wolff Fellowship recipient Cat Carroll, who will spend the next year reporting on global migration in seven different countries: ls.wisc.edu/news/tracing... @cgcarroll.bsky.social @uwethics.bsky.social attn. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Tracing the Paths of Migration
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April 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Congrats to my former journalism student, 2025 Wolff Fellowship recipient Cat Carroll, who will spend the next year reporting on global migration in seven different countries: ls.wisc.edu/news/tracing... @cgcarroll.bsky.social @uwethics.bsky.social attn. @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Happening now! New York's mayoral candidates being grilled by our Columbia Journalism students *Watch it live here:
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A Vision for New York City: Mayoral Forum at Columbia Journalism School
YouTube video by Columbia Journalism School
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April 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Happening now! New York's mayoral candidates being grilled by our Columbia Journalism students *Watch it live here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV_T...
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Officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood.
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How Trump Offers This African Territory Its ‘Biggest Opportunity’
After years of building relationships with congressional Republicans and conservative think tanks, officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood.
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April 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Officials in Somaliland believe President Trump will grant their ultimate wish: statehood.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/w... @lattif.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/w... @lattif.bsky.social