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.
Justin Arenstein
Africa: Driving News Innovation
Pedro Burgos
Brazil: Building Trust through Impact
Catherine Gicheru
Kenya: Promoting Data and Fact-Checking
David Lemayian
Africa: Building New Technologies for Storytelling
Jacopo Ottaviani
Nigeria: Spreading Data Journalism
Ritvvij Parrikh
India: Developing Digital Tools for Newsrooms
Chris Roper
Africa: Spurring Better Audience Engagement
Fabiola Torres
Latin America: Spearheading cross-border data journalism
Nasr ul Hadi
India: Reinventing the Newsroom
Janine Warner
Latin America: Building Successful Media Businesses
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We are helping Kenyans find out if their doctors are fakes.
— Catherine Gicheru, ICFJ Knight Fellow