My latest from Kenya is on the top of today's homepage at The Dial Magazine - Eat Only the Word of God:
How a Pentecostal preacher in Kenya persuaded hundreds of worshipers to starve themselves — and their children — to death. thedial.world/issue-15/kenya…

Barnes & Noble members: For 3 days only you can pre-order my book for 25% off! barnesandnoble.com/w/look-away-ja… Today until Friday Barnes & Noble Grand Central Pub

7/ From Nairobi, Jacob Kushner talks with a philosophy and religious studies professor about the deaths of 429 Pentecostal worshippers in Kenya, who starved themselves after being told by their preacher to eat only the “word of God.” thedial.world/issue-15/kenya…

“Use storytelling as a means of bringing people closer together, not driving them apart.' Jason Motlagh speaking to Cat Carroll for The Badger Herald badgerherald.com/news/campus/20… UW-Madison SJMC Pulitzer Center

'The greatest responsibility (of a journalist) is to be that conduit between suffering and the wider world.' Jason Motlagh speaking to my former International Reporting student Cat Carroll for The Badger Herald badgerherald.com/news/campus/20… UW-Madison SJMC Pulitzer Center

Shame on ⁦Jumia Kenya⁩ ⁦Jumia Group⁩ for stealing workers’ wages. Time to boycott if you haven’t already ⁦Rest of World⁩ restofworld.org/2024/jumia-foo…

Gaza has plunged into darkness. There are few journalists left reporting. On average, at least one of our colleagues has been killed every second day since October 7. Those who could afford it fled; many of them now struggle with severe mental trauma. 

THIS MUST STOP.

Many thanks to NYT bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin (Homegrown, The Nine, American Heiress) for this incredible review! My new book, LOOK AWAY, about Germany's anti-immigrant terrorist trio, is now available for pre-order: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jacob-k… Grand Central Pub

'A perceptive and engrossing examination of a horrifying chapter in Germany’s recent history.' Many thanks Kirkus Reviews for the starred review of my book, LOOK AWAY. kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/j… You can pre-order the book now from Grand Central Pub Hachette Book Group hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jacob-k…

Alexis, huge congrats!

I try to give my students hope for journalism's future. This is not exactly helping the cause. 🤦‍♂️ ijnet.org/en/opportunity…

Watch It Burn: Check out this insane story about the world's biggest criminal carbon trading scam, by Jessica Camille Aguirre for The Atavist Magazine magazine.atavist.com/author/jessica…

'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away.' Many thanks to Rory Carroll (bestselling author of Killing Thatcher) for the kind words about my forthcoming book. Order today: harpercollins.co.uk/products/white… HarperCollinsUK

'A medical student named Ivy Wangeci was axed to death in the county in broad daylight, after she rejected a man.' Kathambi 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 for Truthdig “The business of killing is predominantly male.” truthdig.com/articles/a-gra…

A Grassroots Movement Mobilizes Against Femicide in Kenya truthdig.com/articles/a-gra… Kathambi 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 for Truthdig with Paul Tullis 'Rita Waeni — say her name — a 20-year-old student at Jomo Kenyatta University, allegedly killed and dismembered in January by a man she met on Instagram.'

Years in the making, my book about Germany's far-right, anti-immigrant terrorists is now available for pre-order: harpercollins.co.uk/products/white… Dr Christine Cheng 鄭穎茵 Nanjala Nyabola Sasha Polakow-Suransky Harriet Constable Daniel Knowles HarperCollinsUK Sean Williams Cassandra Vinograd Frontline Freelance Register

We are excited to see this book coming up soon! Jacob Kushner worked on his manuscript 'Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants' as 2022 Journalist in Residence MPI-CSL, Freiburg & MPIL Heidelberg. Max Planck Law Grand Central Pub

Many thanks to M.A. Columbia Journ for teaching me how to report big stories with big ideas on some of the most pressing topics of our time. Alexander Stille

Now available for pre-order from the UK: My book, White Terror. Many thanks HarperCollinsUK Mudlark
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When the civil war started, Ethiopia's then-Ambassador to Kenya 'promised journalists that we’d be welcome to report in Ethiopia, and that the government had nothing to hide. Both statements were lies.' My latest for The Dial Magazine mailchi.mp/4898ff91d5c9/g…