By Elise Schmelzer Umar Cheema loves taxes. The Pakistani journalist sees paying them as a civic duty, and he’s devoted to making sure people in power are paying them, too. Cheema, a former Daniel Pearl Fellow, uses the tax codes ...
Umar Cheema, investigative reporter, The News, won the 2013 Knight International Journalism Award for his excellence in reporting. Umar was a 2008 Daniel Pearl Fellow from Pakistan hosted by The New York Times. He will be honored at the International Center For Journalist’s Awards ...