Author Archives: Press Partners

13 Oct
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Indunil Usgoda Arachchi

Colombo, Sri Lanka Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Fellow Usgoda Arachchi, 34, has worked for five years as a newspaper reporter and freelancer, including stories and photography for the Ravaya newspaper, the Sunday Observer, the Center for Investigative Reporting ...

13 Oct
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Saurav Rahman

Dhaka, Bangladesh Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Fellow Rahman, 33, has worked in journalism for 11 years and is a senior reporter for Maasranga Television.  He focuses on the economy, business, and trade. The show he reports on has ...

12 Oct
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Jody García

Guatemala City, Guatemala TRACE Foundation Fellow García, 28, began reporting in January for Plaza Pública in Guatemala after working for a news magazine in her home country. The Global Investigative Journalism Network describes Plaza Pública as “a news laboratory with ...

12 Oct
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David Mono Danga

Juba, South Sudan Pat and Janna Stueve Foundation Fellow Danga, 29, is a Voice of America correspondent and managing editor of an online news media platform in South Sudan. He was a reporter for the Juba Monitor newspaper until December ...

12 Oct
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Anastasia Valeeva

Moscow, Russia | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan TRACE Foundation Fellow Valeeva, 34, is a data journalist, data editor, mentor and coordinator of data projects. She’s led investigative reports on subjects such as migration, gender equality, and domestic violence. Her sponsor, The TRACE ...

01 Oct
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Alum’s new book puts a face to India’s farm crisis

Raised in a cotton-growing region of central India, Jaideep Hardikar has focused much of his 25-year reporting career on farmers and their increasingly perilous livelihood. In September, HarperCollins published Hardikar’s second book about India’s agricultural system: “Ramrao, The Story of ...

26 Aug
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Alfred Friendly postpones 2021 fellowship program

The rapid, worldwide spread of the Covid19 Delta variant compelled the Alfred Friendly Foundation Board of Directors to move the fellowship program from September 2021 to early 2022. The annual program’s usual start date in March had been pushed to ...

Ankur Paliwal
12 Aug
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Alum exposes caste barriers within India’s top science institutes

Ankur Paliwal, a science reporter and a Fellow in Alfred Friendly’s Class of 2018, revealed significant discrimination when he examined the effectiveness of India’s reservation policy. The policy, a kind of affirmative action, mandates that 15 percent of students and ...

02 Aug
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Pandemic reporting in Kenya leads to life change

By Mercy Adhiambo In a few weeks, I will leave Nairobi for New York City to attend the Columbia Journalism School. I will carry with me my love for telling stories and a lingering fear of what lies ahead. The ...

27 Jul
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Ruth Pearl’s mission lives on through journalists emulating her son

Ruth Pearl, the mother of a Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and executed by al-Qaida terrorists in Pakistan, has died. Her long-ailing lungs finally gave out, 85 years after her birth in Baghdad.  Her legacy, an extension of Daniel Pearl’s ...

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