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The University of North Carolina has rescinded its offer of a tenured journalism professor position to the New York Times '1619 Project' author after an intense backlash.

Instead, UNC officials confirmed this week that Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won the Pulitzer Prize for the 2019 series which 'reframed' American history to focus on when the first Africans arrived in Virginia as slaves, will join its faculty this summer with a five-year contract.

That means one of the New York Times's most vaunted reporters who the newspaper has doggedly stood by even as the project has come under withering criticism by historians for its inaccuracies didn't qualify for a permanent appointment.

This is from The Daily Mail, a bit of a surprise, and is heart-warming--except it sounds as UNC changed its mind for PR reasons rather than rational and idealistic ones. But at least that means the observers are rational and idealistic, even if the institution isn't.