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10 Journalist Fellows from four continents join the Reuters Institute
They will spend up to six months exploring the future of journalism alongside those continuing from last term
Ten new Journalist Fellows are joining the Reuters Institute this term. They will spend six months exploring some of the key issues and challenges facing their roles and their wider profession. They join two Journalist Fellows, Ramisha Ali and Jenni Kangasniemi, who are continuing their fellowship from last term. You can find each of them below with links to their work.
Ipsita Chakravarty
Associate Editor, Scroll.in
India
Sponsor: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Kolkata-based journalist Ipsita Chakravarty worked for the Times of India, the Telegraph and the Indian Express before taking up her current role at Scroll.in, where she supervises coverage of Jammu, Kashmir and North East states.
She is interested in stories that do not just focus on issues of security but instead on the lives and politics of the people who live in conflict-torn areas.
Her work has been recognised with a 2017 Red Ink Award for Human Rights for coverage of Kashmir, and a Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in editing in 2014.
Project topic: Analysing local press freedoms in Kashmir
More on Ipsita's work
Rachel Chitra
Financial journalist and special correspondent, Times of India
India
Sponsor: Facebook Journalism Project
Rachel is a finance journalist and special correspondent for the Times of India with a passion for using data to tell human stories. She has previously worked for Reuters, New Indian Express, and Deccan Chronicle, and specialises in covering banking, insurance and the capital markets.
In 2020, when the government declined to release information, she gathered publicly available data – and shared it with colleagues at other outlets – revealing the PM Cares Fund had distributed more than $1.4bn.
Project topic: The documentation of lynching and rape of Muslims and Dalits in India
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Peter Erdelyi
Senior editor / director, 444.hu
Hungary
Sponsor: Google News Initiative
Peter is currently director of business development at one of Hungary's last independent media outlets, 444.hu.
His role includes audience growth, diversifying the business model and funding opportunities, and commissioning special content projects about pressing issues in Hungary.
Before this, Peter was an investigative reporter covering stories related to national security, covert foreign influence, corruption, hate groups and the rule of law, with a specific focus on judicial independence.
Project topic: User-generated revenue models for online media in hybrid regimes
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Christine Franciska
Managing Editor, Glance - Indonesian Section
Indonesia
Sponsor: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Christine started her journalism career as a newspaper journalist in Jakarta before joining the BBC World Service as a multimedia producer in 2013, where she wrote social media stories, and produced video and radio packages.
In 2018, she earned a Master's degree in digital media and culture from the University of Warwick under the Chevening Scholarship programme.
She now works as managing editor at lock-screen content platform, Glance, in Indonesia.
Project topic: New ways to tell news stories on mobile lock-screens
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Malva Izquierdo
Multimedia Journalist, Managua Furiosa
Nicaragua
Sponsor: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Malva is award-winning multimedia journalist with online content management skills encompassing film, animation and social media management.
She works with Managua Furiosa, a popular independent digital media outlet in Nicaragua that covers art, culture and human rights. Malva uses her multimedia talents to help bring to life events and stories about human rights, gender equality, digital security, cultural activism, and more.
She won a Visual Changemaker Award from Project L (2015), and the Media Innovation (2016) and Best Journalistic Piece (2018) awards in the Conchita Palacios National Awards.
Project topic: How to cover emergencies in Nicaragua
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Tor Kjetil Kristoffersen
News Editor, Finnmark Dagblad
Norway
Sponsor: Fritt Ord Foundation
Tor began his career in journalism at a local radio station 26 years ago. Today, he is a news editor at Finnmark Dagblad, a Norwegian daily newspaper published in Hammerfest, Norway.
Tor’s mother was from the indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Northern Norway, the Sami. As a result of a government assimilation programme, he was never taught his mother tongue. Nevertheless, today Tor proudly represents his heritage in his coverage.
Project topic: A comparative analysis of First Nations media representation in Norway and Canada
More on Tor's work:
Adele Machado Santelli
Editor, TV Cultura
Brazil
Sponsor: Anglo American
Adele is an environmental journalist with a postgraduate degree in Environmental, Sustainability and Global Policies from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP) in São Paulo. She is currently researching ocean plastic pollution as part of a master's degree program in Environmental Sciences at University of São Paulo.
She has worked in some of Brazil’s biggest news rooms for the past 13 years, including BAND, BandNews TV and Rede Record. She currently works at TV Cultura, and is a freelance reporter for National Geographic Brasil.
Project topic: How Brazilian digital media reports on deforestation
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Bermet Talant Kyzy
Kyrgyzstan
Sponsor: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Bermet Talant is a Kyrgyz journalist whose work focuses on politics and human rights. From 2016 to 2020, she worked for the Kyiv Post, Ukraine’s major English-language publication, covering some of the biggest international stories such as the rise of television comedian Volodymyr Zelensky to power, the U.S. impeachment scandal, and Ukraine’s peace process with Russia.
In 2017, Bermet completed a three-month fellowship with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). During her stint there she contributed to several investigative projects and co-authored an investigation into the murder of the exiled Tajik opposition leader in Istanbul.
Bermet has also contributed stories on Turkey, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan to such media outlets as Eurasianet, Open Democracy, Calvert Journal, and RFE/RL.
Project topic: Misinformation created and spread on Telegram
More on Bermet's work:
Luiz Fernando Toledo Antunes
Data journalist and open government researcher, CNN Brazil/Abraji/Fiquem Sabendo
Brazil
Sponsor: Facebook Journalism Project
Luiz is a director of the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji) and has spent a decade using public documents, data mining, and investigative journalism techniques to hold public officers to account.
He is a Sigma Awards finalist (a data journalism prize created by European Journalism Centre), and also has Prêmio Estado, Allianz, República and Claudio Weber Abramo awards to his name.
Luiz is cofounder of Fiquem Sabendo, an agency that helps journalists, researchers and lawyers access public data.
Project topic: Improving access to information law in Brazil
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Mark Oloo Zablon
Editor/Staff Reporter, The Standard
Kenya
Sponsor: Google News Initiative
Mark is a production editor and senior writer at Kenya's oldest daily, The Standard.
Prior to this, he worked for Nation Media Group, Capital FM Group, Kenya Times and Kenya News Agency. He also worked at the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper in the U.S. as part of the American Society of Newspaper Editors mentoring programme. In 2017, he was named a World Press Institute fellow. He is an alumnus of the International Institute of Journalism in Germany, Radio Nederland Training Centre and Fojo Media Institute in Sweden.
Project topic: The impact of digital media on political news consumption among young audiences
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