ICFJ Knight Fellows are entrepreneurial journalists and technology experts who lead transformative media projects around the world. Check out our Fellows and their projects below. You can also read about how our Fellows in Africa and in India, with complementary skills, have teamed up to work on high-impact projects. Our past Knight Fellows continue to do outstanding work as well.
Hannah Ajakaiye
Nigeria: Working with digital influencers to fight fake news
Amr Eleraqi
Middle East/ North Africa: Driving data-generated storytelling
Catherine Gicheru
Kenya: Promoting Diverse Voices and Data-driven Storytelling
Dada Lyndell
Eastern Europe: Promoting Open-Source News Investigations
Sérgio Spagnuolo
Brazil: Developing tools to spread good science
Fabiola Torres
Latin America: Spearheading cross-border data storytelling
Nasr ul Hadi
India: Reinventing the Newsroom
Janine Warner
Latin America: Supporting Independent Digital News
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We are helping Kenyans find out if their doctors are fakes.
— Catherine Gicheru, ICFJ Knight Fellow