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Meera Selva
Meera Selva is a Senior Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. She was the Director of our Journalist Fellowship Programmes from 2017 to 2022. After leaving the Institute, she was appointed CEO of Internews Europe.
Meera is an accomplished senior journalist with experience in Europe, Asia and Africa. She joined the Reuters Institute from Handelsblatt Global where she had been working out of Singapore, having helped launch the digital daily business paper in Berlin in 2014. She was also previously a London based correspondent for the Associated Press, and Africa correspondent for the Independent based in Nairobi. She also has several years experience in financial journalism.
She is co-founder of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network and her work at the Reuters Institute includes climate change, newsroom diversity and media freedom.
Meera studied for an MPhil in European Politics at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and was a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute in 2007-8 where she looked at the media coverage of the Darfur crisis. She is also a member of the RISJ Steering Committee.
Research

Race and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from five markets

Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos en 2022: evidencias de 12 mercados

Women and leadership in the news media 2022: evidence from 12 markets

Race and leadership in the news media 2021: evidence from five markets

Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos en 2021: evidencias de 12 mercados

Women and leadership in the news media 2021: evidence from 12 markets

Women and news: an overview of audience behaviour in 11 countries

How Brexit referendum voters use news

Race and leadership in the news media 2020: evidence from five markets

Mujeres y liderazgo en los medios informativos 2020: evidencias de 10 mercados

Women and leadership in the news media 2020: evidence from ten markets

Fighting Words: Journalism Under Assault in Central and Eastern Europe
News

Journalism at COP26: the missing voices and a taste of a more inspiring way forward

Why we need a new local language of climate change reporting

Do you want to fix the news media race problem? Put fewer white men at the top

One year on, an unwanted heroism: journalism under fire in a global pandemic

Journalists need other journalists. Our Fellowship creates the space they need

COVID-19 is hurting journalists’ mental health. News outlets should help them now

As COVID-19 threatens press freedom, we must protect journalists under pressure

Healing words: press freedom and COVID-19

Journalism is under attack. Here's how it must fight back

An election fought on screens big and small: how British voters get their news
