Cole Receives Aronson Award From

Juan Cole 03/29/2006

Cole Receives Aronson Award from Hunter College

Blogging as journalism just got a huge lift.

Editors and Publishers carries the announcement that the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism awarded by Hunter College will include for the first time this year a category for bloggers. I’m humbled to say that they are awarding it to me for Informed Comment.

For more on the Aronson Award see this link.

It is really wonderful of Hunter College to expand the purview of the award to bloggers as well, and I think that in this matter as in others, they are functioning as a bellwether.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page