SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEE 2022

Anna Westerberg (Sweden)

Anna Westerberg has practiced and studied journalism in three different countries: with an internship in Costa Rica, a Bachelor’s degree from City University of London, and as a radio broadcast journalist with public service in her home country Sweden.

As a local editor at a newspaper in Northern Sweden – a vast, mostly rural area, where people feel sidelined, marginalized and forgotten by their government and the media – she came to see her role partly as shouldering the responsibility to restore the readers’ trust by continuously lifting the concerns crucial for their quality of life.

She is now pursuing her M.S in journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives to tell stories about the societies we live in, the people we are and the symbiosis between us. Anna’s goal as a journalist is to fight disinformation and write stories that connect the divides in society.