Knight-Bagehot Fellows

Varsha Bansal

Varsha Bansal is an independent reporter and editor from India writing at the intersection of technology, AI, labor and human rights. Her work has appeared in WIRED, TIME, Fortune, Rest of World, Economic Times and more. She was longlisted for the International Journalist of the Year award by One World Media in 2023 for her reportage on India’s gig workers.

Brittany Jones-Cooper

Brittany Jones-Cooper is a reporter and producer who has worked at CBS, ABC and CNBC Select where she’s a contributor on TODAY.  She covered personal finance at Yahoo Finance, conducted hundreds of live interviews at Build Series and hosted a web show highlighting social justice issues at Yahoo Lifestyle called Unmuted. Jones-Cooper also produced Microsoft's  Changemakers podcast series.

Olivia Konotey-Ahulu

Olivia Konotey-Ahulu is the UK's equality reporter for Bloomberg News, where she covers disparities in the economy and the workplace. Her work on the inequity facing Black Britons in the housing market and the real estate sector has won awards from the Foreign Press Association, MHP Mischief 30 to Watch and the National Association of Black Journalists. 

Ralf Rivas

Ralf Rivas is a business reporter and desk editor at Rappler. His most impactful stories include the rise of Chinese online gambling in Manila and cronyism under the Duterte and Marcos administrations. He is the host of “Business Sense.” Ralf is also a lecturer at the University of the Philippines—Los Baños, teaching data journalism, media ethics, and science communication.  

Sarah L. Ryley

Sarah L. Ryley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative and data journalist at The Boston Globe, where she has covered topics including biotechnology investments, gun manufacturing, and municipal corruption. Previously, she reported on the pandemic response for the New York Times Opinion video team, and on law enforcement for the New York Daily News, ProPublica, The Trace, and BuzzFeed News.

Bjarke Smith-Meyer

Bjarke Smith-Meyer is POLITICO's Senior Finance Correspondent in Europe. He was among the first to join the finance desk when POLITICO arrived in Brussels and has led coverage of the past decade's biggest finance stories, including the Greek debt crisis, Europe's 2018 dirty money scandals, EU finance ministers' response to the pandemic and the cryptocurrency crash of 2022.

Alexandra Sternlicht

Alexandra Sternlicht is a tech reporter at Fortune who covers the creator economy. Prior to Fortune, she worked at Forbes editing, reporting and leading Under 30. Alexandra has also worked in audience development at The New York Times and served as director of marketing for an app startup. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ken Sweet

Ken Sweet is the banking reporter for The Associated Press, where he writes about the nation’s biggest banks, their regulators and how financial services impact Americans. Before joining the AP, he covered private equity at The Wall Street Journal. He also has written for CNNMoney and Bloomberg News. His corgi, Latke, was once featured in Bon Appétit magazine. 

Kate Taylor

Kate Taylor is a senior correspondent on Business Insider's features team. She was an executive producer on the docuseries "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV," which debuted on Investigation Discovery in March. Previously, she covered the business of fast food and retail at Business Insider and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Erchi Zhang

Erchi Zhang is the deputy director of Caixin’s TMT News Desk in Shanghai. Since joining Caixin in 2015, he has covered the global tech industry, including the semiconductor, automotive, and AI sectors. His reporting also centers on the international expansion of Chinese enterprises, and he has traveled to various countries, such as Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, to document this trend. 

Past Fellows

Tyler Clifford, breaking news correspondent for Reuters. 

Emma Cosgrove, senior reporter on Insider's transportation team. 

Emma Court, health-care reporter for Bloomberg News. 

Michael R. del Castillo, senior editor at Forbes covering blockchain.  

Jon Fasman, editor, correspondent and podcast host for The Economist.

Layla A. Jones, economic equity reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, 

Camilla Veras Mota, bilingual reporter working for BBC Brazil and the network’s English outputs. 

Prinesha Naidoo, economics and government policy reporter for Bloomberg News in Johannesburg and deputy bureau chief for South Africa. 

Taylor Nakagawa, digital editor at Crain’s New York Business.

Lauren Rosenthal, senior reporter at APM Reports and host of the “In Deep” podcast.

H. Claire Brown, senior staff writer for The Counter, a nonprofit publication covering food and agriculture. 

Sam Dean, business reporter, The Los Angeles Times.

Kevin Flores, a founding editor and investigative reporter at FORTHE.org, a noncommercial, reader-supported, worker-owned digital media outlet based in Long Beach, Calif. 

Zack O’Malley Greenburg, book author and a former senior editor at Forbes covering the intersection of music, media and money.

Abubakar Idris, a reporter based in Lagos, Nigeria, covering technology on the African continent for Rest of World. 

Ryan Kailath, an audio journalist and producer of a podcast series from Higher Ground, the production company set up by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, and also an editor at KUOW, the NPR member station for Seattle, Wash. 

Meghan Morris, a senior correspondent on Insider’s tech features and investigations team.              

Vivienne Nunis, a host of several programs on the BBC World Service, including Business Daily and Business Matters. 

Andrea Palasciano, an economics and business correspondent in Russia for Agence France-Presse.

Paula Pant, the creator and host of the Afford Anything podcast, website and newsletter.

Ahmed Al Omran, a freelance journalist based in Saudi Arabia, whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times and other publications. 

Anuj Chopra, Riyadh Bureau Chief for Agence France-Presse. 

Mihir Dalal, book author, reporter and former Bangalore Bureau Chief for the Indian business newspaper Mint. 

Viktoria Dendrinou, a reporter covering the Europen Union for Bloomberg News in Brussels. 

Esther Fung, a reporter covering U.S. commercial real estate for The Wall Street Journal. 

Laila Kearney, a reporter covering U.S. energy for Reuters.

Omar Mohammed, East Africa Business Correspondent for Reuters based in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Christopher Otts, a digital reporter at WDRB News in Louisville, Ky., covering business and economics at the intersection of state and local government policies. 

Cory Weinberg, a San Francisco-based reporter for The Information covering startups, tech workers, real estate and venture capital.

Kira Zalan, an investigative editor coordinating cross-border projects at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, an award-winning, nonprofit investigative journalism platform.

Josie Cox, a journalist and broadcaster from the UK who covers business, finance and gender equality. 

Olivia Feld, a senior U.S. technology reporter based in San Francisco for The Telegraph. 

Dawn Kissi, a multimedia journalist and producer based in New York and the co-founder of the digital media firm Emerging Market Media, a digital platform delivering financial news and analysis for an audience of global market professionals. 

Jonathan LaMantia, a senior reporter covering the business of health care for Crain's New York Business and its newsletter, Health Pulse. 

Julia Love, a reporter for Reuters in Mexico City, where she covers business and migration. 

Amanda Macias, a reporter for CNBC in Washington, D.C., where she covers national security, foreign policy, and the titans of the U.S. defense industry. 

Asli Pelit, a multimedia journalist with the Voice of America in New York, covering U.S. markets in three languages. 

Darius Rafieyan, a producer and reporter for NPR’s daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money. 

Richard Blake Schmidt covers Asia's business empires for Bloomberg and its Businessweek magazine. 

Doualy Xaykaothao, a newscaster at NPR West, based in Culver City, Calif.

Jillian Berman, a reporter at MarketWatch, covering student debt and higher education. 

María Eloísa Capurro, an economics journalist at the Búsqueda newspaper in Uruguay, and a freelance correspondent for Reuters. 

Katie Jennings, a health care reporter for Politico Europe, based in Brussels, covering EU pharmaceutical regulation and public health issues. 

Hannah Levintova, a reporter in Washington D.C. for Mother Jones, covering the intersection of politics with money, influence, and financial policy. 

Larry Madowo, the BBC Africa Business Editor.

Akiko Matsuda, a real estate reporter for The Journal News/lohud, part of USA Today Network, based in White Plains, New York. 

Eshe Nelson, an economics and markets reporter at Quartz, based in London. 

Oheneba Ama Nti Osei, the production editor and a business reporter for the pan-African news organization The Africa Report, based in Paris.

Andrew Rosati, Bloomberg News economics and government reporter in Venezuela, covering the slide of an oil-rich nation into humanitarian catastrophe. 

Hamza Shaban, a technology and business reporter for The Washington Post, covering national and breaking news.

Maneet Ahuja, senior editor at CNBC and co-founder of Delivering Alpha, CNBC’s first conference initiative. 

Thanos Dimadis, a financial correspondent covering the Eurozone and U.S.-EU economic, trade and business relations for Fair Observer. 

Dor Glick, Europe correspondent based in Berlin for Channel 10 News (Israel) covering politics, economics and culture in the sphere.

Jenny Gross, the U.K. politics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, where she covers Brexit and national security. 

Kavita Kumar, national retail reporter for Star Tribune of Minneapolis, covering Target Corp. and Best Buy Co., two of Minnesota’s largest companies and among the biggest retailers in the U.S. 

Mark Maurer, associate web editor for The Real Deal, where he reports on New York City real estate.

Alicia Parlapiano, a graphics editor in the Washington, D.C. bureau of The New York Times, focusing on politics and policy coverage. 

Robert Smith, a host and correspondent for NPR’s global economics podcast, Planet Money. 

Casey Sullivan, senior editorial director at Bloomberg Law, where he launched Big Law Business, a publishing platform that features news, commentary, video, podcasts and events.

Alicia Wallace, a business reporter for The Denver Post covering the business and policy of the cannabis industry.

Ben Bergman, senior business/economics reporter at Los Angeles NPR News station, KPCC. 

Samuel Black, produces documentaries for film, television, and radio. 

Matt Jarzemsky, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering private equity, bankruptcy and equity capital markets.

Matthew Kish, reporter for the Portland Business Journal, covering sportswear, banking and general assignment news.

Karen Langley, a state Capitol reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, covering Pennsylvania’s governor and legislature, annual state budgets and public pension debates. 

Jonnelle Marte, lead writer for the personal finance section of The Washington Post. 

A. Humeyra Pamuk, a senior correspondent for Reuters based in Istanbul. 

Hindol Sengupta, editor-at-large for the Indian edition of Fortune based in Delhi and covering political economy. 

Brian Spegele, a Wall Street Journal reporter in China, covering China’s slowing economy and its disruptions in the global energy sector. 

Andrea Wong, a reporter covering the dollar and U.S. Treasury market for Bloomberg.

Tim J. Craig, Afghanistan-Pakistan bureau chief for The Washington Post. 

Edward Krudy, a reporter covering state and local government and municipal finance for Reuters.

Stephen Kurczy, special correspondent for Americas Quarterly, the Latin America-focused magazine and news site published by Americas Society/Council of the Americas.

Douglas MacMillan, a technology reporter based in San Francisco for The Wall Street Journal.

Silvana Ordoñez, a Spanish-language personal finance correspondent and assignment desk producer for CNBC, where she writes, produces and presents segments for Telemundo. 

Tracey Samuelson, a New-York based reporter for APM's Marketplace, covering business and economic stories.

Christie Smythe, a legal reporter for Bloomberg LP, covering consumer, banking, white-collar fraud and other business cases in Brooklyn federal court. 

Timothy J. Stenovec, technology editor for Business Insider's consumer technology site, Tech Insider.

Roshanak Taghavi, a reporter covering U.S. security policy and economics, politics and culture of the MENASA region for Newsweek Middle East. 

John Tozzi, a health care reporter for Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg Businessweek.

Justin Doom, a reporter covering renewable energy for Bloomberg News. 

Kim Gittleson, a business reporter for BBC News in New York, reporting or producing for radio, television and online.

Tiffany Hsu, a reporter covering the California economy for the business section of The Los Angeles Times.

Iris Kuo, a reporter for Argus Media, an international energy wire based in Houston, Texas. 

Carolina Mandl, a reporter covering the banking industry for Valor Economico, Brazil’s leading business newspaper.

Steven Overly, a national reporter for The Washington Post, where he writes about federal technology and energy policy. 

Jeff Roberts, a reported covering technology law and policy for Fortune. 

Cory Schouten, managing editor of Indianapolis Business Journal directing news coverage and editorial strategy for print and digital content.

David Trilling, Central Asia correspondent for The Economist, and Central Asia editor for EurasiaNet.org, a news website covering the former Soviet Union. 

Jamila Trindle, a senior reporter covering the intersection of business and geopolitics for Foreign Policy Magazine.

Nathan Becker, a copy editor and sports editor specializing in markets and finance news for The Wall Street Journal in New York.

Dan Bobkoff, a reporter covering top business stories and trends for NPR News and the public radio show, Marketplace. 

Maria Danilova, chief correspondent in the Kiev Bureau of The Associated Press. 

Mark Garrison, a reporter and substitute host covering a variety of topics, including economics, media, transportation, retail, marketing and culture for Marketplace. 

Annalyn Kurtz, a senior writer for CNNMoney, covering economic indicators and the Federal Reserve.

Alfred Lee, a staff reporter for Los Angeles Business Journal where he writes about legal issues in industries including real estate, retail, health care and manufacturing. 

Angela Moon, a correspondent covering Wall Street for Thomson Reuters with a specialty in financial markets. 

Niamh Sweeney, special adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland and a former New York‐based freelance journalist for the Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Fortune magazine, NPR, and Irish Independent. 

Halah Touryalai, a staff writer at Forbes reporting on wealth management, asset management, banking and economic and market trends. 

Erin Zlomek, a contributing writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and speed desk editor for Bloomberg News analyzing SEC filings to filter market‐moving disclosures. 

Anjali Athavaley, a reporter covering commercial real estate for the Greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal.

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, founder and managing online editor of ghanabusinessnews.com, a  business news site based in Accra, Ghana, where his special interests are e‐waste, renewable energy and economic development. 

Roseanne Gerin, senior news editor for China Radio International in Beijing. Previously, 

Jeff Horwitz, a reporter for American Banker. 

Aaron Kessler, a staff writer for 100Reporters, a nonprofit journalism organization based in Washington, D.C. 

Prem K. Khanal, associate editor of Republica English daily in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Margot Sanger‐Katz, health care correspondent for National Journal, the Washington, D.C. politics and policy magazine. 

Spencer Soper, a senior business reporter for The Morning Call in Allentown, Penn. 

Peter Svensson, a technology writer for The Associated Press. 

Amy Yee, a freelance journalist based in New Delhi, India, focused on development, business approaches to reducing poverty and stories with social impact.