Class of 2018

Tristan Ahtone is a New Mexico-based journalist who most recently served as a features reporter covering Indigenous affairs for Al Jazeera America . He has reported for “PBS NewsHour,” “Frontline,” “National Native News,” Fusion, Wyoming Public Radio, Fronteras Desk and NPR. Ahtone’s stories have won multiple honors, including investigative awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated and the Gannett Foundation. He additionally was part of the Al Jazeera team that received a Delta Chi Award in 2015. A member of the Kiowa Tribe, he is a past vice president of the Native American Journalists Association and is a contributing editor at High Country News.
@tahtone

Maryclaire Dale is a legal affairs reporter for The Associated Press. Her career has taken her from labor strikes in the West Virginia coalfields to a Caribbean murder trial to the sexual assault trials of Catholic priests and actor Bill Cosby. Her work unsealing Cosby’s decade-old testimony in a confidential legal settlement led to his arrest and felony trial. Dale has also covered the $1 billion settlement of NFL concussion claims, from the filing of the first lawsuits through the U.S. Supreme Court appeal. She has appeared on NPR, BBC News, “PBS NewsHour,” “The Rachel Maddow Show” and other news programs.
@maryclairedale

Emily Dreyfuss is a senior writer at Wired, where she explores the ways technology shapes society. At Wired, she has taken on many roles, from news editor to opinion editor to cybersecurity editor. In 2016, she edited Wired’s national affairs coverage of the U.S. presidential election. Dreyfuss previously worked as a senior editor at CNET, where she wrote commentary, ran social media and co-hosted CNET TV’s “Rumor Has It” podcast. She is a frequent commentator on broadcast news programs and her writing has been featured in The Week and on theatlantic.com.
@emilydreyfuss

Dustin Dwyer is a reporter for Michigan Radio, where he has covered economics and work opportunities for more than a decade. He reported on the auto industry in the years leading up to the bankruptcies at GM and Chrysler, and his reports have frequently aired on NPR and “Marketplace.” For the past five years, Dwyer has participated in the State of Opportunity project, which uses longform narrative reporting to tell the stories of disadvantaged families and children in Michigan. Dwyer has won Clarion Awards, a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and many regional awards.
@dustindwyer

Sebastián Escalón is a reporter who most recently covered environmental issues, resource extraction and human rights for the Guatemalan online magazine Plaza Pública. In 2013, he was part of the team that covered the trial of Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemala’s ex-dictator accused of genocide. The coverage won the Interamerican Press Association Award and was a finalist for the Gabriel García Márquez Prize. Before joining Plaza Pública, he was a science writer at Le journal du CNRS in Paris. A citizen of both France and El Salvador, Escalón is the first Salvadoran to receive a Nieman Fellowship.
@sebesc

Glenda M. Gloria is the managing editor and co-founder of Rappler, the leading social news network in the Philippines. She has run newspaper, magazine, cable news and online newsrooms. Earlier in her career, she rose from the ranks as a reporter for local and foreign publications, covering politics, conflicts, rebel movements and the military, for which she has won various investigative reporting awards. Gloria was the recipient of a MacArthur grant for “Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao,’” the book she co-authored with 1987 Nieman Fellow Marites Dañguilan Vitug. She also won the 2008 Marshall McLuhan Prize for investigative reporting.
@glendamgloria

Lenka Kabrhelova is a U.S. correspondent for Czech Radio, the public radio broadcasting network in the Czech Republic. She previously worked as a Czech Radio correspondent in Russia, where she reported on political, social, economic and cultural stories, including the 2008 Russian-Georgian war, political trials and street protests in Moscow and developments in other post-Soviet nations. Kabrhelova has filed radio news stories, features, interviews and longer programs from nearly 20 different countries. She additionally worked as a presenter and reporter in the Czech section of the BBC World Service in Prague and in London.
@Lenkakab

Matthew Karolian is director of audience engagement at The Boston Globe, where he oversees the development and execution of strategies to bring the newsroom’s journalism closer to readers. During his tenure, the Globe’s social audiences have grown to more than 2 million followers and its reporting has expanded to new platforms such as Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News. Karolian got his start in journalism as a stringer for C-SPAN during the 2008 presidential primaries in New Hampshire, where he documented everything from house parties to victory speeches.
@mkarolian 

Sipho Kings is the Mail & Guardian’s environment reporter. He focuses on the ways human and industrial expansion affect vulnerable people and the environment and has covered topics ranging from the impact of climate change on droughts and coastal flooding to new safeguards for fragile ecosystems.  He has won numerous awards for his work, including national awards for investigating the impact of air pollution on human health, and for reporting that helps to uphold the South African constitution. Now based in South Africa, he was born in Swaziland and is the first Nieman Fellow to come from that nation.
@SiphoKings

Lisa Lerer is a national political writer at The Associated Press, where she was a lead reporter covering the 2016 U.S. presidential race and its aftermath. She has reported in Washington for 10 years, covering the White House, elections, Congress and lobbying for the AP, Politico, Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Her work has also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Slate, Fortune and The American Lawyer, where she covered business and legal issues. She appears regularly on PBS’s “Washington Week,” CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Fox News’ “Fox News Sunday,” NPR and other programs. She has reported from 45 of the 50 U.S. states.
@llerer 

Jamieson Lesko is a London-based producer at NBC News. She has reported from 25 countries across network, cable and digital platforms on terrorism, geopolitics and war, including serving as NBC’s Kabul bureau chief. Previously, she was an executive producer at MSNBC, where she led primetime shows through periods of record ratings growth. She earned an Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the 2015 Paris attacks, Emmy recognition for her role in CNN’s broadcast control room on 9/11 and nominations for breaking news, continuing coverage of Europe’s migration crisis and Libya’s Arab Spring uprising.
@jamiesonlesko

Diana Marcum is a senior writer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has worked since 2011. Her narrative portraits of farmers, fieldworkers and other Californians in the drought-stricken towns of the state’s Central Valley won a 2015 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Marcum’s book  “The Tenth Island,” about the diaspora of Azoreans who return to the Portuguese archipelago each summer, will be published in May 2018. Marcum started her journalism career as an editorial assistant and later a reporter at the San Bernardino Sun. She also worked a reporter and columnist at The Fresno Bee.
@DianaMarcum

Christine Mungai is the Nairobi-based editor of Africapedia, a web publication that features data on key trends and major issues in the news in Africa. Her journalism career began at The East African newspaper, where she reported on politics, security, business, culture and the arts. In 2014, she joined the Mail & Guardian Africa, where her focus was broadened to a pan-African perspective, with a heavy focus on data-driven reporting. In 2015, she was named as the first runner-up for the David Astor Journalism Award, a professional development prize for East African print journalists.
@chris_mungai

Nneka Nwosu Faison is a Boston-based television news reporter and producer for WCVB-TV’s “Chronicle” program, the nation’s longest running local news magazine. Her shows focus on issues affecting minorities and millennials, from life expectancy disparities among racial groups in Boston to the student debt crisis. Nwosu also teaches digital journalism at Emerson College. She previously worked a multimedia journalist at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Conn., and as an anchor/reporter at WPRI-TV and WNAC-TV in Rhode Island, where she shot, edited, and produced her own stories in addition to doing live reports.
@newsnneka

Frederik Obermaier is an investigative reporter for the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s leading daily. He is one of the two reporters first contacted by the anonymous source of the Panama Papers, the leaked documents that prompted a global investigation involving hundreds of journalists. That coverage won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. Obermaier is member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and has been involved in other large investigations such as Offshore Leaks, Bahamas Leaks, Luxembourg Leaks and Swiss Leaks. His awards include the CNN Journalist Award, the George Polk Award and the German Wächterpreis. Obermaier is the author of several books including the “Panama Papers.”
@f_obermaier

Michael Petrou is a Canadian journalist and foreign correspondent who writes for OpenCanada, the National Post, iPolitics, CBC, The Walrus and other publications. He has reported from across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia and has won three National Magazine Awards, including honors for his coverage of Ukraine and Haiti. Petrou is the author of two books: “Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War” and “Is This Your First War?: Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World,” a memoir that won the 2012 Ottawa Book Award for nonfiction. He has a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford.
@michaelpetrou

João Pina is a Portuguese photographer who has worked primarily in Latin America but also has covered human-rights stories and conflicts in Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Ivory Coast and Mozambique. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, El País and Stern. In 2007, with Rui Daniel Galiza, he completed his first book, “Por teu livre pensamento,” featuring the stories of 25 former Portuguese political prisoners. In 2014, he published “Condor,” about a military operation designed to destroy political opposition to the military dictatorships in South America during the 1970s.
@joaopinaphoto

María Ramírez is a Spanish reporter and entrepreneur who works in New York and Madrid. She writes about U.S. politics for Univision and co-founded Politibot, a chatbot that delivers messages about political developments in Spain, the rest of Europe and the United States. She previously worked as a correspondent for the Spanish daily El Mundo, reporting primarily from New York and Brussels. She later was part of the founding team of the startup El Español that broke the world record for crowdfunding in journalism in 2015. Ramírez is the co-author of three books about U.S. politics, “La Carrera” and “Marco Rubio y la hora de los hispanos.”
@mariaramirezNY

Emily Rueb, a reporter for The New York Times, writes and produces New York 101, a multimedia column explaining infrastructure. At the Times, she pioneered new approaches to storytelling for the breaking news blog, City Room, where she covered Hurricane Sandy and major elections, and created a niche writing about avian life. She also edited Metropolitan Diary. Her New York 101 series examined the power grid, road construction, organics recycling and the water system. Winner of an Emmy and a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism, Rueb also has contributed to The Financial Times, BBC Scotland, Time Out Paris and Cleveland Magazine.
@Rueby

Shalini Singh is a New Delhi-based features reporter. She has worked for the Indian newsmagazine The Week and the country’s leading daily, the Hindustan Times, where her story on illegal mining in the Indian state of Goa won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for best environmental reporting. Singh was a fellow at the New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment and has reported widely on environmental issues. Her other awards include the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award and the first Cushrow Irani Prize for environmental reporting as well as the Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity for a team feature. She is a founding member of the CounterMedia Trust and a regular contributor to the People’s Archive of Rural India.
@shalininess

Mat Skene is the executive producer of Al Jazeera’s award-winning current affairs program “Fault Lines.” Under his management, the show has covered a range of topics, including Haiti’s cholera epidemic, human trafficking on U.S. military bases and the fallout of President Trump’s proposed travel ban. Skene has received an Emmy Award for investigative journalism, two George Foster Peabody Awards, the duPont- Columbia Award, and the Robert F Kennedy Award for Journalism. A U.K. citizen, he has been based in Washington, D.C., since 2008. Before that, he worked in Malaysia for Al Jazeera’s current affairs program “101 East.”
@matmountain

Bonny Symons-Brown joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2013. She has worked in radio and TV news was most recently the supervising producer of “The Drum,” a political talk show providing analysis of the day’s biggest stories from a diverse range of perspectives. Previously Symons-Brown was based in Jakarta and anchored a daily news program on Indonesian television. She is the winner of the 2017 Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism Award. Her career started in the Australian parliamentary press gallery for the AAP wire service.
@SymonsBrown

Lauren N. Williams is the features editor for Essence. She assigns and edits articles, profiles and special reports on topics including reproductive rights, gun violence, politics, public health and social justice. She also manages Essence’s career, finance and technology content. Articles she has edited have won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists. Her work has also been nominated for a 2017 National Magazine Award. Before joining Essence, Williams worked at More and Marie Claire, where she wrote news articles and lifestyle and culture features.
@laurnwilliams

Edward Wong is an international correspondent for The New York Times who served as the Beijing bureau chief and China correspondent from 2008 to 2016, covering Chinese politics, economics, the military, foreign policy, the environment and culture. He has reported across Asia, including in Afghanistan, North Korea and Myanmar. He also covered the Iraq War from 2003 to 2007 as a Baghdad-based correspondent. Wong received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists for his Iraq reporting, was part of a team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and has received awards for his China reporting and for sports writing. He joined the Times in 1999 and reported for the business, metro and sports desks before going overseas. At Princeton University, he has taught as a Ferris Professor of Journalism.
@comradewong