We’re continuing our look back at stories from the past year with this photograph courtesy of Jelani Cobb, the 2019 James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism. Cobb, a New Yorker contributor and the Ira A. Lipman professor of journalism at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, captured a selfie with New Paltz students at the final meeting of their April seminar, “The First Draft of History.” Learn more online about the Ottaway Visiting Professorship, and stay tuned for updates about what the program has in store in 2020.
