Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist
Independent
Brandon Pope is an Emmy-winning multimedia journalist, host, podcaster, film critic and columnist, with experience covering a range of topics from politics to sports. His work has been featured on Entertainment Tonight, Ebony Magazine, The Root, REVOLT and the Chicago Sun-Times. Brandon is host of the MAKING podcast series from WBEZ and NPR, and Editor-in-chief of the Chicago-based Film and Television news platform Creative Cypher. He is president of the Chicago chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, where he focuses on shepherding in the next generation of journalists and raising money for scholarships. He's also an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago.
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