Roseanne Gerin

Roseanne Gerin, an editor at Radio Free Asia in Washington, has worked in journalism for more than 16 years. She writes stories on human rights, prolonged conflicts, the environment, politics, economic development, and man-made and natural disasters in six Asian countries that have limited or no access to independent media. She was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in 2013-14. Gerin spent four years in Poland covering the country as it emerged from its communist past, and six years in China where she wrote and edited news articles about a nation that is having a monumental impact on the United States and the rest of the world. As a staff writer at the B2B publication Washington Technology, she was part of a team that won two American Society of Business Publication Editors awards for coverage of federal government contractors. Gerin holds academic degrees from Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland), Villanova University, Boston University and Columbia University.

During her ICFJ-UNF Fellowship, Gerin published China, Asian Neighbors Step Up Drive to Curb Overuse of Antibiotics as Resistance Fears Grow, Experts Warn Mekong Delta Agriculture, Livelihoods Face Serious Threats, New U.N. Effort to Protect Refugees Not Seen as Helping Vulnerable Internally Displaced Persons, and UN Agencies Turn to New Technology to Tackle Old Problems in Southeast Asia.