Karima Haynes
DIRECTOR OF REPORTING FELLOWS PROGRAM
Karima A. Haynes is a 2019 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She is co-author of “Communications Internship Handbook: What HBCU Students Need to Know” (2022, Kendall Hunt), which won a 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Haynes has two decades’ experience as a newspaper reporter and magazine writer. She is a former staff writer of the Los Angeles Times, Ebony, and The Providence Journal-Bulletin. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Jet magazine.
She has taught journalism at Biola University, University of Maryland College Park, Regent University, and Bowie State University. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership from Bowie State University, a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Clark Atlanta University.
