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Nikole is an American award-winning investigative reporter who covers civil rights and racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine . She serves as the Knight Chair of Race and Investigative Reporting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .
Her heroes are the race beat reporters , such as Ida B. Wells , Ethel Payne , Simeon Booker and Claude Sitton , whose fearless coverage helped move this nation closer to its promise .
Nikole Hannah-Jones Age
Nikole was born on 9th , April , 1976 , in Waterloo , Iowa , United States .
Nikole Hannah+Jones Career
Prior to joining The New York Times , Nikole worked as an investigative reporter at ProPublica in New York City , where she spent three years chronicling the way official policy created and maintains segregation in housing and schools . Before that , she reported for the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest , The Oregonian in Portland , Ore , where she covered numerous beats , including demographics , the census and county government .
Nikole started her journalism career covering the majority-black Durham Public Schools for The News & Observer in Raleigh , N.C. During her three years there , she wrote extensively on issues of race , class , school resegregation and equity .
Nikole Hannah-Jones Salary
Nikole Salary estimates is as , on 2nd ,March , 2021 , the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered her 180,000 USD to be the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism and Professor of the Practice in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media .
According to the offer letter, she will start working at the university on 1st, July , 2021 . The offer for a full-time position , which is a five-year fixed-term contract , is primarily funded by the state and runs through 30th , June , 2026 .
“The academic-year salary for the Knight Chair is 180,000 USD . 33 percent of the academic salary and benefits is provided by the Knight Chair Endowment Grant , and 67 percent is provided by state funding by the Hussman School of Journalism ,” the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill public records office told Campus Reform .
Nikole Hannah-Jones Net Worth
Nikole Net Worth is estimated to be 3 million USD .
Nikole Hannah-Jones Family
Nikole was born and brought up to Milton Hannah and Cheryl A. Novotny . Her father is African-American , and her mother is white and of Czech and English descent . Nikole is a native Iowan , a child produced by the hopes of both the Great Migration and those who migrated from foreign shores . She has lived in Indiana , Georgia , North Carolina , and Oregon . Currently , she is in Bed-Stuy fly in Brooklyn
Nikole Hannah-Jones Husband
Nikole is married to Faraji Hannah-Jones . They met online in 1999 . Faraji is a Technology Support Specialist . He has been an Information Technology Support Technician at ACLU since April 2020 . Previously , he worked as a Senior Desktop Support Analyst at LF Distribution Holding Inc. (A Li & Fung Company) from Jun 2018 – Jan 2020 , a Technology Consultant at 1619 Enterprises from August , 2017 – June , 2018 , a Website Designer at The Audacity Firm from June , 2016 – June , 2018 , a WordPress Administrator at P.S. 307 Daniel Hale Williams from September , 2015 – May , 2016 , an Information Technology – Client Services Technician at St. Joseph’s College NY from January , 2014 – September , 2015 , a Technology Support Specialist at Portland Community College from March , 2008 – February , 2012 , an Advanced Technical Service Representative at Comcast from November, 2006 – March , 2008 , a Network QA Tester at Xerox from August , 2006 – November , 2006 , and a Time Warner Cable at Sr. Technical Specialist from Sepember , 2001 – August , 2006 , according to his LinkedIn profile .
They are blessed with a a daughter , Najya Hannah-Jones . In an article titled “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City ,” published in The New York Times Magazine , Hannah-Jones chronicles how she and her husband “surrendered their advantage” when they chose to send their daughter to a segregated public school .
Nikole Hannah Education
Nikole got hooked on journalism when she joined her high school newspaper and began writing about students like her , who were bused across town as part of a voluntary school desegregation program .