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BULLY PULPIT

“The reason I picked the title for my talk, ‘From the Blue-Collar Midwest to Globe Columnist,’ is because I’m an extremely lucky person. I’ve benefited from many of the things that you, as public
policymakers, debate,” said Derrick Jackson at a brown bag lecture sponsored in March by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Jackson, a columnist at the Boston Globe, grew up as a self-described “ordinary kid” in a working class neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “I’m not a pointy-head, think-tank kind of guy,” he said. “I have my job because, in part, young brothers took to the streets.” Jackson was a finalist in 2001 for the Pulitzer Prize.