Jacob Kushner
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Jacob Kushner

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Jacob Kushner is an international correspondent who writes magazine and other longform stories from Africa, Germany, and the Caribbean.

He reports on migration and statelessness, science and global health, history and foreign aid, terrorism and violent extremism, climate change and wildlife.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Economist, National Geographic, VQR, The Atavist, WIRED, Foreign Policy, and VICE. He has photographed for National Geographic and field-produced for VICE on HBO, and PBS NewsHour.

He is the author of China’s Congo Plan, which was favorably reviewed in The New York Review of Books. His forthcoming book, Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants, will be published in spring 2024 by Grand Central (Hachette) and HarperCollins UK.

Jacob has taught International Reporting and Migration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Visiting Professor at Columbia Journalism School.

Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jacob graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a B.A. in journalism and Latin American studies. He holds an M.A. in political journalism from Columbia University. In 2013 he conducted research for the ICIJ on their Offshore Leaks project, a precursor to the Panama Papers. As an Overseas Press Club Fellow in Nairobi he covered the 2013 Westgate Mall terrorist attack for the Associated Press. In 2016 he was named among the world’s leading journalists doing solutions-based reporting by the Solutions Journalism Network. He investigated terrorism against immigrants as a 2017-2018 Fulbright Fellow in Germany, and in 2018 he was named a Finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for Excellence in International Reporting. Jacob was a 2019 Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good.
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    • A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants
    • Written by: Jacob Kushner
    • Narrated by: Samantha Desz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-07
    • Language: English
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