Jelani Cobb Instagram – Somewhere in 2018 I got the idea to do a documentary that would examine the role of voter access in the upcoming presidential election. My across-the-hall colleague June Cross was quietly working on her own documentary on the same subject.
Fortunately we got into a conversation that led to a collaboration between us, a great colleague from Frontline, Tom Jennings, and the data team at Columbia Journalism Investigations. And we were all fortunate to have CJS Dean Steve Coll and Raney Aronson, Executive Producer of Frontline support the idea.
The result was Whose Vote Counts, a film that was released just before the election and rewarded with the esteemed Peabody Award (it came in the mail today.) I’m thrilled we got to do this film and angry that we even needed to. But I’m nonetheless thankful for this recognition. | Posted on 23/Oct/2021 02:17:03
