Overview
- Columbia Journalism School announced the unexpected death of Beau Jessup, a 27-year-old M.S. student, and expressed condolences to her family and classmates.
- The school released an unpublished interview conducted last month with Jessup after receiving permission from her family and peers.
- Dean Jelani Cobb called Jessup a "cherished member" of the J‑School in an email to students and the school said it is offering support to her family and classmates.
- Jessup was the only child of British actress Lisa Maxwell and Paul Jessup, and she previously studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge.
- As a teenager Jessup founded SpecialName, a service for choosing English names for Chinese children, and no official information has been released about where, when, or what caused her death.