Meet the 2018 Knight Visiting Fellows

The Nieman Foundation yesterday announced the nine 2018 Knight Visiting Fellows. Each will spend time at Harvard University to work on an innovative project designed to advance journalism. Cynthia Hua, a San Francisco-based freelance journalist who previously worked at Facebook and BuzzFeed, will explore new approaches to measuring success for online video news. Jonathan Jackson, most recently a Co-Founder and Head of Corporate Brand for Blavity, will build a framework for a comprehensive study of Black media, focused on digital properties, social influence and the impact of a burgeoning Black creative class. Shaheen Pasha, Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will research prison education programs across the country. Her goal is to create an immersive teaching and reporting model for university journalism programs to partner with prisons in creating journalism curriculum for inmates. BBC News’ India correspondent and features and analysis editor, Soutik Biswas, will examine digital and non-digital methods and tools to counteract fake news in India. Azad Essa, a journalist with Al Jazeera and co-founder of the South African news portal The Daily Vox, will investigate innovative and cost-effective ways in which online news sites can reach rural audiences in South Africa. The list also includes Mark Frankel, BBC News; Erik Borenstein, the NYT; Alexandra Smith, WhereBy.Us; andAshley Catherine Woods, Detour. Congrats, all! More here.