Kentucky To The World Education Program with Dana Canedy
Dana Canedy is no stranger to communicating the ever-changing social and political landscape through hard hitting journalism. A former New York Times Pulitzer-winning journalist, Dana has written extensively on a broad range of topics, including The Times series “How Race Is Lived in America,” about race relations in the United States, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Most recently, Dana left her position as administrator for The Pulitzer Prizes to take on the role as publishing company Simon & Schuster’s first African American senior vice president and publisher.
Prior to joining The Times, Dana was a reporter for The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland. She is also the author of the 2008 New York Times bestselling memoir, “A Journal for Jordan,” about life with her war-hero partner, and the journal he left for their infant son, before being killed in combat in Iraq. The book has been published in 10 countries in eight languages and has been optioned by Denzel Washington and Columbia Pictures. It is currently being adapted for a film by “Mudbound” Oscar-nominated co-writer Virgil Williams for Washington and Todd Black of Escape Artists, who are producing the project, along with Dana. The actor Michael B. Jordan is slated to star in the film.
Reared in Radcliff, Kentucky, she graduated from The University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. The school named her a Distinguished Alumna, in 2017.
In this episode, Atherton High School student journalists Kayden Mulrooney and Adison Schanie collaborate with former Courier-Journal editor Rick Green and student peers from around the Commonwealth to engage Ms. Canedy on an array of subject matters.