2026 Pulitzer Center Fellows Announced
Eight graduates will report on underreported stories around the world through grants administered by the Pulitzer Center.
Columbia Journalism School, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, is proud to announce the graduates from the Class of 2026 selected for fellowships to pursue ambitious reporting projects on underreported issues of global importance.
The partnership between the institutions provides funding and mentorship from advisors affiliated with the Pulitzer Center. Fellows are paired with mentors based on their reporting interests and areas of expertise, allowing them to pursue deeply reported stories across continents and communities.
Five of the projects in the international arena are funded through the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, which prepares journalists to work, think and report globally. The center is led by the Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor of Journalism, Azmat Khan.
Other reporting grants are supported through generous alumni contributions, including the Dean's Fund for Postgraduate Reporting Opportunities.
"The Li Center is thrilled to support these fellows pursuing important global reporting projects in the public interest,” said Khan. “At a time when global journalism is under great threat, these fellowships provide foundational experiences that also result in impactful, important reporting."
Now in its seventh year, the Pulitzer Center's reporting fellowships help emerging journalists undertake consequential reporting projects at a critical moment for independent journalism around the world.
“What gives me hope about the future of journalism is that these Fellows are approaching their work with both rigor and humanity,” said Shruti Desai, director of university programs for the Pulitzer Center. “Their projects reflect a deep commitment to understanding the lived experiences behind the headlines and to reporting stories that matter to the communities most affected by them. The partnership with Columbia and the Pulitzer Center for journalism continues to empower these individuals.”
Meet the Fellows
Abrol is an independent journalist and Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar from New York whose work focuses on immigration, borders, and technology. Prior to journalism, she led trust and safety initiatives at Meta. Her upcoming project examines the relationship between AI data center expansion and water scarcity in Querétaro, Mexico, where 17 of 18 municipalities experienced severe drought in 2024.
Frasson is an Italian investigative journalist whose work exposing far-right networks, commercial spyware and biometric surveillance, and systemic abuse inside juvenile detention has earned the DIG Award and prompted parliamentary inquiries and judicial proceedings at national and European levels. Her project investigates the transnational pipeline routing Colombian ex-military personnel into Sudan's civil war, tracing its links to war crimes by the Sudanese paramilitary group RSF and child soldier recruitment.
Hida is a Japanese-Thai journalist interested in stories at the intersection of migration, conflict, and gender. She previously reported from Japan and recently joined the newsroom at Honolulu Civil Beat. Her project will take her to Mae Sot, Thailand, where she will work alongside a Burmese co-reporter to explore the idea of a dignified life and death through the lived experiences of Myanmar migrants.
Sen is an investigative journalist from India whose reporting focuses on accountability, human rights, and the intersection of technology, conflict, and governance in South Asia. Her project examines how surveillance, legal restrictions, and barriers to public information are reshaping journalism in Kashmir and what that means for local reporters and the public's right to know.
Angliviel de La Beaumelle is a French journalist reporting on conflict, politics, environment, and international affairs. Drawing on a background in geopolitics, she has covered frontline stories and immigration issues from Beirut, Berlin, Paris, and New York. Her project investigates the systematic environmental destruction caused by Israeli military practices in Syrian and Lebanese border zones, and whether those practices constitute ecocide under international law.
Anzalone is a Hawai’i-grown, New York City-based journalist covering art, culture, immigration, and religion. Her work has appeared in FLUX Magazine, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The New York Times’ T Magazine, and Hyperallergic. For her post-graduate fellowship, Mia will report on the future of Hawai'i’s former Hansen’s Disease settlement on the island of Moloka’i.
Jonas is an investigative journalist based in New York City, whose reporting focuses on wrongdoing in science and medicine. Her work has shed light on NOAA’s involvement in the Bering Sea snow crab population collapse, dark money in public health, and has led to Fidelity Charitable reinstating the UNRWA to its platform. Her project will explore dark money and the bottom trawling industry in Alaska.
Pickering is a video fellow with BBC News covering national and international stories. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, her background is in history, political strategy, and crisis communications. She is based in Washington, D.C. Pickering’s project tells the story of Sudanese immigrants living in New York City through “The Amara,” an apartment building in Brooklyn that houses the largest concentration of Sudanese people in the city. This film has the potential to show how one apartment building connects to larger, urgent questions of movement, refuge, and the human cost of displacement.