2019 Scholarship Awards
First Place
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Diana Chan is a video journalist and documentary filmmaker from Hong Kong. She grew up in South Africa before moving back home as a teenager. Diana is interested in political and social stories, and is known for her work covering the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, both during the 2014 Umbrella Movement and in the most recent 2019 anti-government protests. Her Hong Kong coverage has been published by AFP, This American Life, Vice News and others.
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Second Place, Three Way Tie
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Jonas Ekblom is a Swedish reporter, photographer, and recent honors graduate from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He currently works as climate and energy reporter for Reuters in Brussels after spending time at their Washington D.C. offices, where he covered trade and also reported from the White House and the Mueller hearings. Before his graduate studies, Jonas spent several years at Swedish Public Radio, where he started fresh out of high school as a 19-year-old, and have freelanced for Swedish and European publications, writing about politics, business and culture. He is also the recipient of 2019’s Overseas Press Club Scholar Award. |
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Urvija Banerji was born in Bangalore, India, and raised in Singapore, Singapore, where she developed an appreciation for books, oil painting, food, music, and writing. She moved to the US in 2011 to attend Princeton University, where she majored in English Literature and served as an editor on the college newspaper. She went on to work at publications like Atlas Obscura, Rolling Stone India, and The Swaddle India, before starting her Master of Arts in arts and culture journalism at Columbia University last year. At the end of the year, she received the school-wide Nona Balakian award for the student who shows most promise in writing about literature. Urvija currently lives in Brooklyn, covering music, food, gender, race, and visual art as a freelancer. In her spare time, she paints, reads, curates Spotify playlists, and has also recently taken up running, which she expects to soon become her whole personality. |
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Natalia Kniazhevich is a master’s student at NYU, studying business and economic reporting. Before moving to New York, she was an anchor and producer at RBC TV, the largest independent business TV channel in Russia. She covered global economics and politics and hosted the live program “Financial Markets.” She has interviewed top Russian and foreign executives and government officials, including Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy, Khalid A. Al-Falih among others. She did a special report “London: Russian Business,” after Sergei Skripal, a double agent for the U.K.'s intelligence service, was poisoned in Britain. She interviewed Russian entrepreneurs living in London on how political tensions between Russia and the U.K. affected Russian assets and businesses. She has a keen interest in finance, focusing on the oil and gas industry. |
Kim Wall Special Recognition Award
Priyanka Suryaneni is a master’s student from the Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism at USC. She is the recipient of the 2019 Kim Wall award which is given in memory of the 2013 FPA awardee Kim Wall, who was murdered while covering a story in her native Sweden.
Teresita D’Alessandro de Michaels Special Recognition Award for a Latin American Journalist
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Karina Montoya is a Peruvian journalist specializing in business and finance. She earned her BA in journalism from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (2013), and has reported extensively on business, technology and public policy for local media. At magazine Semana Economica, from 2015 to 2018, she led the coverage of the Brazilian probe “Operation Car Wash” ― Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal ― and its impact on Peru’s business and politics.
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