Advisory Board Member

Sarah Cohen is the Knight Chair focusing on data journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

She joined Cronkite after a 25-year career in news, most recently leading a group of New York Times reporters who focused on data- and document-driven investigations. As a database editor at The Washington Post, she shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and was a Pulitzer finalist for public service.

She also served as the first Knight Chair in computational journalism at Duke University and as an adjunct instructor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Cohen also is the immediate past president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, a 5,000-member training organization for journalists.