Covering Race and Criminal Justice

July 9, 2020
1:00pm

Join recent Columbia Journalism School alumni reporting on the intersection of race and criminal justice. We’ll discuss their work exposing police abuses and documenting inequity in the criminal justice system, and explore the pathways that led them to the forefront of reporting on violence against Black and brown communities at this historic moment

Ko Bragg is a reporter at The 19th News, with a focus on policing and juvenile justice. Since graduating from Columbia Journalism School and Sciences Po Ecole de Journalisme in Paris, she has been covering criminal-justice issues in Mississippi. She's won six Green Eyeshade Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists mainly for her coverage of officer-involved shootings and kids charged as adults. Her work appears in Scalawag Magazine and The Appeal. She was a 2018-2019 Reveal Investigative Fellow. Bragg is based in Jackson, Mississippi.

Sean Campbell is a senior reporting fellow at ProPublica. His investigations have prompted action from members of Congress, change in the CDC, contributed to Twitter changing its policy on 3D-printed guns. He's won a Sidney Award from the Hillman Foundation and has been a finalist for an investigative data journalism award given by the Online Journalism Awards. He was previously a senior investigative fellow at The Trace, covering guns and gun violence in America. He is an adjunct professor in the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and his feature work has been published by The Verge, BuzzFeed News and FiveThirtyEight, among other outlets.

Eileen Grench covers juvenile justice for THE CITY and is a Report for America corps member. She was previously an investigative reporter for the Global Migration Project, where her work was featured in The Intercept, The Nation, and Documented. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, Eileen was also a 2016 Olympian.

Moderator: June Cross is Professor of Journalism and Director, Documentary Journalism Program at Columbia Journalism School. June Cross' career has highlighted stories of the dispossessed and the importance of community through video documentary. She recently completed the Emmy-nominated “ Wilhemina's War,” which premiered at DOC NYC, screened at the Pan African Film Festival, and aired on PBS' Independent Lens in February 2016.