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Jamelle Bouie
Bouie in 2015
Born
Jamelle Bouie

(1987-04-12) April 12, 1987 (age 37)
Occupation(s)journalist, columnist, writer
Websitejamellebouie.net Edit this at Wikidata

Jamelle Bouie (born April 12, 1987) is an American journalist and columnist for The New York Times. He was formerly chief political correspondent for Slate magazine.[1] According to David Uberti, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Bouie is "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era."[2]

Life and career

Bouie was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2009.[3][4] He currently lives in the Washington D.C. area.

Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship in 2010 for the magazine The American Prospect. Then in 2012 he was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by the print magazine The Nation.[5] In 2013, Bouie became a staff writer for online magazine The Daily Beast,[6] writing about national politics.[7] In 2014, he moved to Slate magazine as a Chief Political Correspondent.[8][9] In 2019, he joined The New York Times as a columnist.[10][11]

In 2013, Bouie was a contributor to Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics,[12] a book about the 2012 presidential election edited by political scientist Larry Sabato.[13] In 2013, he published the blog post "What Does It Mean to Be Privileged," which has since been much praised.[14]

Bouie writes articles focusing on history, public policy, and national politics including the 2016 presidential race.[15] He also writes about entertainment, such as science fiction, comics, and film.[16]

Bouie also has written extensively on racial politics[17][18][19][20][21][4] including the Ferguson unrest,[22] the Charleston church shooting,[23] and the subsequent Black Lives Matter movement.[24] Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, he wrote an article for Slate arguing that there was "no such thing as a good Trump voter." Several days earlier, he compared Trump voters to the "angry, recalcitrant whites" who pushed back during Reconstruction era after the Civil War.[25][26] He has criticized the media for an unwillingness to label racism as "racist" (opting instead for terms such as "racial" and "racially charged").[27] He criticized the media for its "horse-race" coverage of the 2016 election.[28] His writing on racial and national politics subjects is often quoted by other journalists.[29][30]

Since 2015, Bouie has been a political analyst on CBS News.[31][10] He has frequently appeared on the network's Sunday morning show Face the Nation,[32][33][34][35] as well as during the network's election night 2016 coverage.[36]

In January 2019, The New York Times announced that Bouie would join their lineup of Opinion columnists. [37] The newspaper stated that (Bouie has) "consistently driven understanding of politics deeper by bringing not only a reporter’s eye but also a historian’s perspective and sense of proportion to bear on the news. His interests, as you will certainly know if you’ve been a reader of his newsletter as well as his columns, range well beyond politics to the visual arts, food and movies."

Recognition

In 2012, Bouie was chosen for The Root Magazine's Root Top 100.[38] They stated that "his is a strong, influential and necessary voice during the 2012 election season and beyond."

Forbes magazine recognized Bouie in their "30 Under 30 - Media" list in 2015, saying that "he became a leading voice on the Ferguson story."[39]

References

  1. ^ "Who We Are". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 7 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  2. ^ Uberti, David (16 January 2019). "The future of the #SlatePitch in Trump's world". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  3. ^ "Hoos in the News (Alumni Panel) - Lifetime Learning". Lifetime Learning. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  4. ^ a b Fitzgerald, Brendan (21 September 2017). "Lessons on covering race and racism after Charlottesville". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  5. ^ "Jamelle Bouie". The Nation. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  6. ^ "Jamelle Bouie". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  7. ^ "Bissinger vs. Bouie: Buzz Switched to Romney, But Should He Switch Back?". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  8. ^ Levy, Nicole (24 March 2014). "Slate hires Jamelle Bouie from The Daily Beast". POLITICO Media. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  9. ^ Grinapol, Corinne (18 August 2015). "Slate Expands Its Politics Team". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  10. ^ a b Calderone, Michael (4 January 2019). "Pelosi's moment, Trump's stunt — The MSNBC primary — WaPo Style turns 50 — From Weekly Standard to The Bulwark". POLITICO Media. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  11. ^ "Oversight is here". Columbia Journalism Review. 4 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  12. ^ Campbell, James; Cook, Rhodes; Toner, Michael; Owen, Diana; Cohn, Nate; Bouie, Jamelle; et al. (2013). Sabato, Larry (ed.). Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 978-1442222649.
  13. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics". Publishers Weekly. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  14. ^ Friedersdorf, Conor (3 April 2017). "What Does 'Cultural Appropriation' Actually Mean?". The Atlantic.
  15. ^ Bouie, Jamelle (5 October 2015). "New Bernie Sanders Polls Show He Could Win". Slate. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  16. ^ Bouie, Jamelle (22 January 2015). "Marvel's Secret Wars Initiative May Have a Secret Agenda". Slate. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  17. ^ "Jamelle Bouie, Wrong as Usual". National Review Online. www.nationalreview.com. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  18. ^ "Hispanics Scoff at Suggestion They'll Identify as White in the Future". The Root. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  19. ^ "The Making of Slate's Inaugural Academy Series on Slavery". www.adweek.com. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  20. ^ Stelter, Brian (11 August 2018). "Stelter: How to report on racists without fanning the flames". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  21. ^ "Historians are a great resource. Journalists, be sure to give them credit". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  22. ^ Bouie, Jamelle (2 August 2015). "How Ferguson Changed America". Slate. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  23. ^ "Jon Stewart, Jamelle Bouie, And Others Weigh In On The Charleston Massacre". NPR.org. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  24. ^ Bouie, Jamelle (17 August 2015). "Black Lives Matter Protests Matter". Slate. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  25. ^ Baragona, Justin (15 November 2016). "Slate's Jamelle Bouie Says There Are No Good Trump Voters, Compares Them To Lynch Mobs". Mediaite.
  26. ^ Wermund, Benjamin (9 November 2016). "Slate writer: Pro-Trump white 'backlash' evokes end of Reconstruction". Politico.
  27. ^ "Dancing around the word ‘racist’ in coverage of Trump". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  28. ^ "Here's (some of) the best political journalism of 2016". Poynter. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  29. ^ Teresa Welsh (30 April 2014). "Views You Can Use: A Swift Reaction to Donald Sterling's Racism". US News & World Report. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  30. ^ Bump, Philip (20 February 2015). "Rudy Giuliani and the 'love it or leave it' view of America". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  31. ^ "Jamelle Bouie named CBS News political analyst". www.wkyt.com. WKYT CBS News. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  32. ^ "Sunday shows". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  33. ^ "Sunday shows so far". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  34. ^ "Sunday shows". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  35. ^ "This week's Sunday shows". POLITICO. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  36. ^ "Here's How the Networks Will Cover Election Night". adweek.it. Retrieved 2019-01-25.
  37. ^ "Jamelle Bouie Joins The New York Times Opinion Pages as Columnist". www.nytco.com. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
  38. ^ "The Root 100". The Root. 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  39. ^ "Jamelle Bouie, 27 - In Photos: 2015 30 Under 30: Media". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-01-18.