Four new Journalist Fellows join the Reuters Institute in April 2024

Four journalists are joining the Reuters Institute’s Journalist Fellowship Programme this term. They each bring expertise in important areas of journalism including digital innovation, conflict reporting, financial journalism and environmental coverage and represent a range of news outlets from public service media to magazine publishers. During their time with us they will take part in seminars and discussions exploring the future of journalism worldwide and events including a Summer Showcase in London where they will present their project work. Find out more about each of them below. Our four new fellows join six journalists continuing from last term.
 

Laura Gartry

Digital Producer, Four Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia

Sponsor: ABC

Laura Gartry is the digital producer for Australia's premier investigative program Four Corners. She specialises in long-form storytelling and has edited award winning interactive digital productions. She has also worked as a TV news journalist for ABC News across Australia.

Project title: Discoverability and prominence of public interest journalism

More on Laura’s work:

• ‘Black Summer: Inside the Australian bushfires crisis’, ABC
• ‘Video games you play are using sneaky tactics’, ABC
• Laura’s X page

Signe Ferslev Pedersen

Journalist and Editor, Finans - Jyllands-Posten
Denmark

Sponsor: JP/Politikens

Signe Ferslev is an experienced business journalist and editor reporting on ESG related topics, and leading coverage of ESG at Finans, a Danish digital business media under the banner of Jyllands-Posten. She is also the host of the weekly podcast, "Finans Impact."

Project title: New formats for new audiences of ESG journalism

More on Signe’s work:

• Article on an investment in a huge wind project in Bangladesh, Finans
• Article on transformations at a Danish transport giant, Finans
• Signe’s X account

Hagar Shezaf

West Bank Correspondent, Haaretz
Israel

Sponsor: Haaretz

Hagar Shezaf is Haaretz's West Bank correspondent since 2019. Based in Tel Aviv, she covers mostly settler, Palestinian and military affairs in the West Bank for the paper. She is the recipient of the Israel Press Institute prize for her coverage.

Project title: Reporting on the "other side" of violent conflict

More on Hagar’s work:

• ‘Cigarette burns, beatings, attempted sexual assault: settlers and soldiers abused Palestinians’, Haaretz
• ‘Six Palestinians Have Died in Israeli Prisons During the War, Two Found Bruised’, Haaretz
• Hagar’s X page

Rebekah White

Science editor and journalist, New Zealand Geographic magazine
New Zealand

Sponsor: Columbia University

Rebekah White is a science editor and journalist from Auckland, New Zealand, who reports primarily on conservation, climate change, and ocean geoengineering.

Project title: How to report on carbon capture

More on Rebekah’s work:

• ‘Summer 33’, (Article on an annual albatross count) New Zealand Geographic
• ‘New Zealand’s environmental credentials on the line as coalition takes power’, Guardian
• Rebekah’s X page