"Meet the Press"
Jelani Cobb, Dean, Columbia Journalism School
18:00-19:00, Saturday, June 14, 2025
The Dean of Columbia Journalism School will visit the FCCJ on Saturday evening to share his thoughts about the state of the industry and its future. Despite the sudden notice about the visit, please join us for the latest on what the media in the U.S. is facing in the first half year of the new Trump Administration and its vital role ahead.
Speaker’s Profile:
Dr. Jelani Cobb joined the CJS faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film “Whose Vote Counts?” and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.
He is the author of “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress” and “To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic.” He is the editor or co-editor of several volumes including “The Matter of Black Lives,” a collection of The New Yorker’s writings on race and “The Essential Kerner Commission Report.” He is producer or co-producer on a number of documentaries including “Lincoln’s Dilemma,” “Obama: A More Perfect Union,” “Policing the Police” and “THE RIOT REPORT.”
The speaker is appearing gratis, but to gauge room space needed please reserve in advance at Reception 03-3211-3161, front@fccj.or.jp or online.
Dan Sloan
FCCJ President