Nikole Hannah-Jones rejects tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill, goes to Howard

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones says she will not teach at the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following an extended fight over tenure.

Hannah-Jones announced her decision on Tuesday during an interview on “CBS This Morning.”

Instead, Hannah-Jones said she would instead take up the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at Howard University, a historically black school in Washington, D.C.

Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill approved tenure last week for Pulitizer Prize-winning investigative journalist Hannah-Jones, capping weeks of tension that began when a board member halted the process over questions about her teaching credentials.