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March 27, 2025

"Capitulation Is the Wrong Way to Go": Dir. Julie Cohen Resigns from duPont-Columbia Award Jury
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In news from Columbia University, Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker
Julie Cohen has stepped down from the selection committee of the
prestigious du Pont-Columbia journalism awards. Cohen, who co-directed
the documentary "RBG," said the decision came after Columbia "so readily
caved to the Trump Administration." Three other jurors joined Cohen in
resigning Tuesday. Julie Cohen said in her resignation letter, "Any
thoughtful analysis of how institutions respond to creeping
authoritarianism makes it clear: capitulation is the wrong way to go."


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