Jacob Kushner is an international journalist, author, and educator who writes magazine and digital longform stories from Africa, Germany, and the Caribbean.
He reports on migration and human rights, foreign aid and investment, terrorism and violent extremism, science and global health, climate change and wildlife, and press freedom.
His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic,The Economist, National Geographic, The Nation, VQR, The Atavist, WIRED, Foreign Policy, and VICE. He has photographed for National Geographic and field-produced for VICE on HBO, and PBS NewsHour.
He is the author of China’s Congo Plan (2013) and Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants (2024). Both were favorably reviewed in The New York Review of Books.
Jacob teaches journalism at Columbia University in New York. He previously taught at New York University and as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Magazine name
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Harper’s
The Atlantic
Foreign Policy
The Long Lead
NOEMA
National Geographic
The Economist 1843 Magazine
The New York Times Magazine
The Atavist
VICE Magazine
The Dial Magazine
Foreign Policy Magazine
The New Yorker
The Atlantic
NOEMA
National Geographic
WIRED
BBC
The New Scientist
National Geographic
The Guardian Long Read
The Virginia Quarterly Review
VICE Magazine
Moment Magazine
National Geographic
Foreign Policy Magazine
title of the article
The Pernicious Power of U.S. Promises
The Gay Rights Activists Hoping for a Legal Victory in Kenya
The Chinese Company Eradicating Malaria in Africa
Germany Is Now Spying on Its Own Top Spy
Did Germany’s ‘Refugee Crisis’ Even Exist?
Trouble at the Lake: Human-hippo conflict is exploding in this pristine patch of Kenya
Too Big to Jail: The Colombian Drug Lord Who Snitched his Way to Freedom
Love They Neighbor: A gay refugee’s harrowing international plight
10 Murders, 3 Nazis, and Germany’s Moment of Reckoning
The British Empire’s Homophobia Lives On in Former Colonies
Raiders of the Lost Art: Kenya Wants its Treasures Back
Biologists Could Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. But Should They?
Stopping the Next One: The global race to prevent the next pandemic (series)
The New Vaccine You Haven’t Heard Of
In Germany, a New Museum Stirs Up a Colonial Controversy
Haiti and the Failed Promise of US Aid
On the Run: The plight of Kenya’s LGBT Refugees
Birthright Denied in the Dominican Republic