hannah-jones: my first job was in raleigh, about 30 minutes from chapel hill. in my very job fair first job fair, i had to know internships and i came there was some class papers to wilson, who was managing editor at the observer at the time and he very kindly told me don't ever come to a job fair with class papers again. we need to go get some clips. i took his advice and came back the next year with clips and he hired me as an intern. me as graduated, he hired a reporter. i first job was as a public schools reporter in the city of durham, which was half black, half white, pretty liberal college town, that's where duke is and since i went to carolina, i hate duke. [laughter] prof. dessen: --ms. hannah-jones: i started covering public schools at the height of no child left behind and the rise of high-stakes testing. the belief that if we test and hold segregated high poverty schools to a high level of accountability that suddenly we would get results like white schools. this is where i started my journalism career. very early on i was looking at the results, the verge of getting results of school reform that was leaving kids in segregated high poverty schools, which is