2023 FOREIGN PRESS AWARDEE
FAREED ZAKARIA
Fareed Zakaria is the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a bestselling author.
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Hiba Nasr is a Senior Correspondent for Asharq News in Washington, DC. She covers the White House, State Department, and Pentagon, mainly on matters related to American foreign policy and the United States’ role in the world.
Nicola Wenz is an award-winning bi-national journalist from Germany and Switzerland. She is a producer for ZDF German TV in Washington DC.
Ankita M. Kumar is an award-winning Indian journalist. She has previously worked for POLITICO, Deutsche Welle (DW), and The Economist Group.
Frank Ucciardo is an Emmy Award-winning Television Journalist working as the United Nations Correspondent for the TRT World International News Channel. Frank served as a two-term President of The Society of Professional Journalists.
Benjamin Tetteh is award-winning Ghanaian journalist and researcher with over fifteen years of experience in broadcast, print and online journalism. He has produced award-winning broadcast documentaries and features covering mining pollution, climate change, children’s rights protection, and the UN sustainable development goals.
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Alexa Robles-Gil (Mexico) is a master's student in New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. Before pursuing science journalism, she worked as a field biologist. She's researched sharks in South Africa's Western Cape and seabirds on a remote island off Mexico’s Pacific coast. During her field research, she encountered different issues, such as abalone poaching and ocean plastics, that sparked her desire to dive deeper into complex stories.
Lucila Pinto (Argentina) is an Argentinian journalist and project manager. She is currently completing an M.A. in Science Journalism at Columbia University. She was a contributing writer for La Nación newspaper, where she had a monthly column on AI, technology and science. She has led the creation of websites, data visualizations, videos and platforms for international development organizations. As a JournalismAI fellow, she co-created Image-2-Text, an open-sourced project that aimed to incorporate Artificial Intelligence to describe and catalog photos and videos in newsrooms from the Global South.
Anisha Dutta (India) is a New York-based investigative journalist from India with experience spanning nine years as a leading correspondent specializing in the intricate interplay between politics and policy. Her recent stories have been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Economic Times and The Print. Anisha enrolled in Columbia University’s master’s program for political journalism, where she deepened her expertise in political writing and analytical reporting.
BIO Maurice Oniang’o (Kenya) is an investigative multimedia journalist from Nairobi- Kenya, where he covers social justice, human rights, corruption, natural history, and conservation. His work has been featured in renowned publications such as National Geographic, The Guardian, The Continent, NowThis, AJ+, Rest of World, and 100Reporters, among others. He is pursuing a Master of Science in Journalism- Documentary Specialization at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Chloe (Nanlin) Fang (China) is a journalist based in Washington D.C., covering the U.S. foreign policy towards East Asia, especially on China. She started her journalism career in Hong Kong and moved to Beijing to cover China at CNN and Reuters. At Reuters, she took the lead in producing multimedia packages on the Covid-19 outbreak in China. She is currently finishing her Master's Degree in Asian Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Anthony Esguerra (Philippines) is a multimedia journalist and an aspiring journalism innovator. He is passionate about connecting newsrooms with their audiences and exploring ways to deliver journalism that resonates with the people. He is the founder and executive editor of Factual, an independent nonprofit newsroom that started as a fact-check chatbot during the pandemic. Anthony currently attends New York University where he is taking an MA Journalism program that focuses on journalism innovation, audience and news products.
Cherisse Halsall (Belize) is an up-and-coming journalist known for international headlines like the Jasmine Hartin case and indigenous resistance to Prince William's recent visit to Belize. She's now pursuing a master's in journalism, with a special project on the SmartLink app's alignment with U.S. Supreme Court immigration advice speech rulings. Soon, she'll be joining KOMU 8 in Missouri as an MMJ.
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