Sarah H Cohen, Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy  

Office Location: 140 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7348
Email Address: sarah.cohen@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

    Education:
    MA, University of Maryland, 1992

    Teaching (Fall 2009):

    • Pubpol 195.15, Presidential transitions: taking power
      Rubenstein 149, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

    Bio/Profile
    Sarah Cohen joined the Sanford School in 2009 after working for 15 years as a reporter and editor, most recently for The Washington Post.

    Cohen shared the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2002 for The Post series, “The District’s Lost Children,” which uncovered failures by child welfare agencies that contributed to dozens of children’s deaths. In 2007, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for her role in “Harvesting Cash,” a series of more than 20 articles that spotlighted abuses of the U.S. farm subsidy system.

    She also shared the 2009 Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting for a series about landlords driving tenants out of rent-controlled housing and then redeveloping the properties. She has taught journalism courses at the University of Maryland and is the author of “Numbers in the Newsroom: Using Math and Statistics in News.”

    Sarah H Cohen