Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb on covering Trump: “There is even more fear than in 2016”
A respected historian, an award-winning reporter and a journalism educator, Dean Cobb will deliver the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture on 10 March. In this interview with our Head of Editorial, Eduardo Suárez, he discusses the state of journalism in the US and the challenges posed by covering Donald Trump.
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