Pulitzer Center Update July 19, 2024
Announcing the 2024 Post-Grad Reporting Fellows
The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce our 2024 cohort of 13 Post-Graduate Reporting Fellows.
Since 2020, the Pulitzer Center has awarded fellowships to recent graduates of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism to complete in-depth projects on underreported issues of global importance.
This year, the Post-Grad Fellows will report from all over the world, from Peru to Mauritius, Tanzania, and Puerto Rico, on topics as varied as education, climate change, and conflict.
"Through these in-depth reporting projects, our Post-Graduate Reporting Fellows will bring to the fore critical global issues," said Karima Haynes, the Reporting Fellows Program Director. "The Fellows' commitment to impactful journalism is evident."
In addition to funding, each Fellow receives mentorship from the Pulitzer Center team and a Pulitzer Center grantee. Fellows and advisers are paired based on their reporting interests and expertise.
We are excited to welcome these new Fellows to our community! Read on to learn more about our 2024 Post-Graduate projects.
Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism Fellows
Freelance journalists Tristan Bove and Louise Kim will travel to Tanzania, where shrinking inland fisheries have impacted millions of people in the fishing industry. The team will cover an international expedition investigating whether warmer lake temperatures tied to climate change are depleting fish stocks.
Isabelle Senechal is an investigative journalist with experience covering racial justice and equity issues. Her Pulitzer Center project will take her to Puerto Rico, where she will cover a community-led restorative justice movement.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Fellows
Funding for the Columbia Post-Grad Fellowships comes from the university, and the Li Global Fellows are sponsored by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.
Documentary filmmaker Refael Kubersky will report alongside Daniel Hernandez-Alonzo, an experienced non-fiction cinematographer. Their project will investigate the non-human primate trade from Mauritius to the U.S.
Ariane Luthi is a Swiss journalist who previously worked in diplomacy. Her project will examine the side effects of international sanctions in Afghanistan.
Ekaterina Venkina will follow the green economy transition and the environmental transformation of the Aral Sea. Venkina is a journalist with Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, where she covers world politics and Russia.
Li Global Fellows
New York-based journalists Ella Chakarian and Bence Szechenyi will travel to Armenia to report on the aftermath of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, focusing on the refugee crisis and mounting political unrest in the region.
Lachlan Hyatt will document new efforts in eastern Ukraine to bring back safe, in-person schooling even as the war continues to disrupt the lives of children across the country. Hyatt is a PBS NewsHour Fellow with experience reporting in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, and Ukraine.
Carla Samon Ros will use her Pulitzer Center project to report on the human costs of Peru’s blueberry boom and the challenges posed by climate change. As a journalist, she has covered a wide range of topics, including politics, economics, human rights, and environmental issues.
Lucila Pinto is an Argentinian freelance journalist and former London School of Economics and Political Science Journalism AI fellow. Her project will explore the social impacts of dengue outbreaks in South America amid rising temperatures due to climate change.
Business and climate reporter Mathilde Augustin will cover Guadeloupe's cancer crisis, which is linked to a toxic pesticide that France used in the Caribbean island’s banana plantations until the mid-90s. Augustin is currently a fellow at Inside Climate News.
