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Sarah Cohen (journalist)

Sarah Cohen is an American journalist, author, and professor. Cohen is a proponent of, and teaches classes on, computational journalism and authored the book "Numbers in the Newsroom: Using math and statistics in the news."[1][2][3]

Sarah Cohen

She holds the Knight Chair of Data Journalism in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.[4]


Previously she was an assistant editor for computer-assisted reporting at The New York Times and adjunct faculty at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[5][6]

Education[edit]

Cohen received an A.B. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduation, she worked as an economist (1980-1991) for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 1991 she returned to school at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, graduate program in public affairs reporting, and received her M.A. in journalism in 1992.[1][5]

2001 Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal for "The District's Lost Children," with the staff of The Washington Post

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2002 with the staff of The Washington Post, for a series that exposed the District of Columbia's role in the neglect and death of 229 children placed in protective care between 1993 and 2000, which prompted an overhaul of the city's child welfare system[20]

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

2002 Robert F. Kennedy Award in Journalism for "The District's Lost Children," with the staff of The Washington Post

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2005 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting with the staff of The Washington Post, for their series exposing lead contamination in the District of Columbia water supply

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2009 for "Forced Out," with the staff of The Washington Post, for their reporting on how Washington, D.C. landlords drove hundreds of tenants from rent-controlled apartments[23]

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting

2016 for Images/Graphics/Interactives, with the team members of The New York Times, "Making Data Visual,"[24]

Gerald Loeb Award

Duke Chronicle, Yeshwanth Kandimalla, March 17, 2011

"Q&A with Sarah Cohen"

Reporter's Lab blog

The NYT's Best Data Visualizations of the Year