Laura Santhanam

As data producer for the PBS NewsHour, Santhanam uses narrative and numbers to tell stories. Her work at the NewsHour merged her career as a newspaper reporter at the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Arizona Republic with her work as a media analyst at Pew Research Center. She previously worked as a senior climate researcher at Media Matters for America, where she wrote blogs that examined climate change and managed data-driven projects on the media’s coverage of issues related to energy and the environment. Santhanam earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history from the University of Mississippi and a master’s degree in public policy from American University.

During her ICFJ-UNF Fellowship, Santhanam published ‘Stateless’ with ‘no possibility of escaping war’: One Syrian refugee’s story.