BROOKLYN, N.Y. — At 16, Khloe Watson-Barrett already knows she wants to be a lawyer. She also knows she’ll soon have to run the gauntlet of the high-stakes college admissions process, now that she’s past the halfway point of her junior year in high school. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat “It’s nerve-wracking,” Watson-Barrett said […]
Jon Marcus
What I do: I write and edit stories about all forms of education past high school, including who gets into college, how much it costs (and why), what people get for their money and the alternatives that are increasingly available.
My background: I am a longtime journalist who started covering higher education in Florida. My stories about higher education have since run in media including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Wired, the Times (U.K.) Higher Education magazine and NPR, and I have won or been a finalist for the National Headliner Awards, Mirror Awards, National Awards for Education Reporting, City and Regional Magazine Association, Deadline Club of New York City and others. I’ve also been a magazine writer and editor, and I cohost the NPR higher education podcast “College Uncovered” and teach journalism at Boston College.
Journalistic ethics: The most important part of my work is finding and telling the human stories integral to the promise of a postsecondary education, which requires living up to the trust of students and others who agree to share these stories with me. I also try to challenge perceptions about higher education and make readers think about this essential industry in ways they might not have before. I follow our ethics code and the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethics guidelines, including not accepting gifts or special considerations from sources or potential sources.
Phone: 212-678-7556
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