Derrick Z. Jackson is an essayist for The Boston Globe and a climate and energy writer for the Union of Concerned Scientists. He was a 2001 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary, a two-time winner of opinion awards from the Education Writers Association and a nine-time winner from the National Association of Black Journalists. He is the co-author and photographer of Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock, published in 2015. Besides his nature photography, his images of Barack Obama were exhibited by Boston’s Museum of African American History. While at the Shorenstein Center, Jackson wrote about race and climate change.
Steve Lopez wins 2021 Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism
The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and the Nyhan Prize Selection Committee has named Steve Lopez, columnist at the Los Angeles Times, as the winner of the 2021 Nyhan Prize in Political Journalism. The Nyhan Prize honors a political journalist who covers politics and social policy in the public interest, and embodies