
Staff
Emily Bell
Founding Director and Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism

Staff
Dhrumil Mehta
Assistant Director

Staff
Peter D. Brown
Research Director

Staff
Pri Bengani
Computational Journalism Fellow

Staff
Gabby Miller
Senior Reporting Fellow
Staff
Patricia Campos Mello
Research Fellow

Staff
Joel Simon
Research Fellow

Staff
Jem Bartholomew
Reporting Fellow

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Sarah G. Gotfredsen
Steve Coll investigative Fellow

Staff
Kathleen Johnston
Program Director
Staff
Hana Joy
Program Manager

Current Fellows
Christopher Ali
Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia

Current Fellows
Victoria Baranetsky
General Counsel, The Center for Investigative Reporting
Current Fellows
A. J. Bauer
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Current Fellows
Heather Chaplin
founding director Journalism + Design, The New School. Associate professor
Current Fellows
Letrell Crittenden
Program Director and Assistant Professor of Communication, Thomas Jefferson University

Current Fellows
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud
Media Researcher with Dublin City University’s Institute for Future Media and Journalism

Current Fellows
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Computer Science, Northwestern University

Current Fellows
Sam Ford
Media executive and researcher working on media innovation, audience engagement, cultural intelligence, and storytelling experimentation

Current Fellows
Maxwell Foxman
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Game Studies, University of Oregon | School of Journalism and Communication.

Current Fellows
Cameron Hickey
Project Director for algorithmic transparency, National Conference on Citizenship

Current Fellows
Julia Hirschberg
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Columbia University
Current Fellows
Sarah Ita Levitan
Post Doc, Columbia University

Current Fellows
Bernat Ivancsics
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Current Fellows
Magda Koniecza
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Klein College, Temple University

Current Fellows
Seth C. Lewis
Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon

Current Fellows
Susan E McGregor
Associate Research Scholar in the Data Science Institute, Data Science Institute

Current Fellows
Irene McKisson
General Manager of Niche Audience Development, Arizona Daily Star

Current Fellows
Christoph Mergerson
Ph.D. candidate in Communication, Information, and Media in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University

Current Fellows
Jeremy Merrill
freelance data journalist

Current Fellows
Anthony Nadler
Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Ursinus College

Current Fellows
Efrat Nechushtai
Knight News Innovation Fellow

Current Fellows
Jacob Nelson
assistant professor, Arizona State University

Current Fellows
Sejin Paik
Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies at Boston University’s College of Communication

Current Fellows
Becky Pallack
Product Manager, Arizona Daily Star
Current Fellows
Colin Porlezza
Senior Assistant Professor of Digital Journalism, Institute of Media and Journalism; Università della Svizzera italiana

Current Fellows
Damian Radcliffe
Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, Professor of Practice, at the University of Oregon

Current Fellows
Adrian Blanco Ramos
2020 Knight Fellow

Current Fellows
Dr. Jeannine Relly
Associate Professor / Director of Global Initiatives, the University of Arizona/Center for Border and Global Journalism

Current Fellows
Sharon Ringel
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism

Current Fellows
Felix M. Simon
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

Current Fellows
Sarah Stonbely
Research Director, Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University

Current Fellows
Doron Taussig
Journalism and politics at Ursinus College

Current Fellows
Danielle Lee Tomson
Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, Journalism

Current Fellows
Allissa V. Richardson
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Current Fellows
Hilde Van den Bulck
professor of Communication Studies and Head of the Department of Communication at Drexel University

Current Fellows
Qun Wang
Assistant Professor, Fordham University

Current Fellows
Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Research Assistant, Tow Center for Digital Journalism

Current Fellows
Andrea Wenzel
Assistant Professor, Temple University

Current Fellows
Sarah Wiley
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota

Current Fellows
Miya Williams Fayne
Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton

Current Fellows
Angela Mary Woodall
Ph.D. Student, Columbia University

Current Fellows
Emilie Yu Marine Xie
Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University

Current Fellows
Natacha Yazbeck
Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society and postdoctoral fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Current Fellows
Rodrigo Zamith
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Current Fellows
Kathy Zhang
Research Affiliate, Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University

Current Fellows
Shira Zilberstein
Doctoral Student, Harvard University

Current Fellows
Javier Sauras
2020 Knight Fellow

Former Fellows
Abhay Aneja
PhD Candidate, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

Former Fellows
Burcu Baykurt
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University

Former Fellows
Charles Berret
Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, Journalism
Former Fellows
Kaizar Campwala
Entrepreneur In Residence, Al Jazeera Media Network

Former Fellows
Dr. Elizabeth A. Hansen
Senior Research Fellow

Former Fellows
Jeff Hemsley
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

Former Fellows
Marguerite Y. Holloway
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Journalism; Co-Director, MA Science Journalism Program, Graduate School of Journalism

Former Fellows
Dennis Kinsey
Director of Public Diplomacy, Director of Newhouse School Doctoral Program, Professor of Public Relations, Syracuse University

Former Fellows
Yafit Lev-Aretz
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Information Law Institute at NYU

Former Fellows
Michelle F. Levine
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science

Former Fellows
Joon Soo Lim
Knight News Innovation Fellow

Former Fellows
Regina Luttrell
Assistant Professor of Public Relations and Social Media, Syracuse University

Former Fellows
Stephen Masiclat
Professor and Director of New Media Management Graduate Program, Syracuse University
Former Fellows
Madelyn Sanfilippo
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Information Law Institute at NYU
Former Fellows
Kate Seabury
Director, Original Content Development, Audible

Former Fellows
Michael Shapiro
Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism

Former Fellows
Jenny Stromer-Galley
Professor in the School of Information Studies and Director for the Center for Computational and Data, School for Information Studies, Syracuse University

Former Fellows
Duy Linh Tu
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism

Former Fellows
Jonathan Albright
Director, Digital Forensics Initiative
Former Fellows
Mia Shuang Li
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Graduate School of Journalism

Former Fellows
Jon Keegan
Senior Research Fellow

Former Fellows
Nushin Rashidian
Lead Research Fellow, Platforms and Publishers

Former Fellows
Georgios Tsiveriotis
Senior Research Fellow

Former Fellows
Sara Rafsky
Senior Research Fellow

Former Fellows
Ishaan A Jhaveri
Research Fellow

Former Fellows
Sara Sheridan
Editor and Researcher

Former Fellows
Aaron Brezel
Adjunct Research Scholar