Amid the controversy to bring in 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones as a tenured professor to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the school’s Journalism and Media Dean requested that ABC News' Deputy Political Director "protect" Hannah-Jones. Their correspondence was among a batch of emails obtained by Fox News in connection with the ongoing saga in the spring. ABC Deputy Political Director Averi Harper emailed UNC Journalism and Media Dean Susan King in May, to ask why Hannah-Jones hadn’t been granted tenure. Her package is perhaps the best I’ve ever seen," King wrote to Harper, adding: "Protect Nikole. Fox News has reached out to both Harper and King but did not hear back before publication.

Source: Fox News August 01, 2021 23:37 UTC