Ndubuisi is a Nigerian journalist whose work spans production, reporting and commissioning across radio, television and digital platforms. As a senior broadcast journalist with BBC News, she oversaw multiplatform features commissioning from Anglophone West Africa and contributed to global projects including Dear Daughter, the BBC World Service podcast named Audible’s Podcast of the Year in 2022.
She received the 2025 Arthur J. Harrison Prize for her reporting and is currently exploring the consequences of reduced USAID funding for neglected tropical diseases in Nigeria and across the African continent.
The fellowship is named for Konner, ‘61 M.S., a broadcast news producer, documentarian, television executive and author who served as Dean from 1988 to 1997. Konner brought many innovations to the School, establishing both the part-time Master of Science and Ph.D. programs and modernizing the curriculum.
Konner also served as a trustee of Columbia University. After her term as Columbia Journalism School dean, she was the publisher and later a member of the Board of Overseers for the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). She lent her philanthropic support to CJR and the school by establishing an endowed scholarship, creating a graduation prize in her name, and restoring the school’s lobby. Her family has continued to support this legacy through the establishment of a visiting professorship and this endowed fellowship, both in her name. The fellowship is open to graduates of CJS master's programs from the last six years and Ph.D. students who have completed their coursework.
