The Mid-Career Fellowships provide full tuition and a $60,000 living stipend for experienced journalists to pursue graduate studies, primarily at Columbia’s business and journalism schools. During the nine-month program starting in August, participants also attend weekly workshops at the School of Journalism led by experienced journalists, media business executives, academics and a wide range of technology, financial and corporate experts.
The Class of 2024 will join more than 400 Knight-Bagehot alumni, journalists who cover economics, technology, finance and public policy around the world.
2023-2024 Knight-Bagehot Fellows.
Tyler Clifford is a Reuters news reporter based in New York, where he has lived since 2018. His coverage of US national affairs includes reporting on state and federal courts, economics, government and politics. Before Reuters, he wrote about publicly traded companies and Wall Street for CNBC, where he helped cover the pandemic-induced meltdown and recovery in financial markets. He got his start as a business reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business, reporting on Detroit-area businesses and the city’s recovery from bankruptcy. He graduated from Michigan State University in 2015.
Emma Cosgrove is a senior reporter on Insider’s transport team, where she covers supply chains, logistics companies and the wider workforce that power our consumption. He was the lead reporter for Insider’s 2022 SABEW Award-winning Storage Nation project. Emma has been a business reporter for 14 years, previously working in food, agriculture, venture capital and banking. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Supply Chain Dive, AgFunder News, The Counter, and Edible Magazine. He has reported in six countries on four continents and began his journalism career as a financial reporter in Beirut, Lebanon.
Emma Court is a health correspondent for Bloomberg News, where he leads coverage of the weight loss industry, including the seven-part podcast series Losing It, which he reported, wrote and hosted. He has previously reported on the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. His work has also explored the tension between expensive new therapeutic innovations and patients’ ability to access them. She is a mentor with the nonprofit Girls Write Now, and her writing has appeared in publications ranging from Businessweek to The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. A graduate of Cornell University, he lives in Brooklyn.
Michael R. del Castillo is a senior editor at Forbes covering how blockchain is being adopted by enterprises and the broader business community. His work, regularly cited in industry research reports, has been published in The New Yorker, nationally syndicated by American City Business Journals, and included in Risk Books’ Blockchain in Financial Markets and Beyond. Since 2009, she has directed Literary New York, a nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing the state’s rich literary heritage.
John Fasman has worked at The Economist since 2003 as US digital editor, Atlanta correspondent, Southeast Asia bureau chief, Washington correspondent and American business and society correspondent. He also hosted the magazine’s daily news podcast, The Intelligencer, helped create and launch its own political podcast, Checks and Balance, and has done extensive audio reporting. He has written two novels, The Geographer’s Library and The Untamed City, and a book about police surveillance technology called We See Everything. freedom and justice in an age of perpetual surveillance.’ Married with two sons, lives in Dobbs Ferry, NY.
Leila A. Jones is the economic equality reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she covers how politics affects people’s finances. His community reporting focuses on Black Lives Matter, social policy, and labor issues. He recently completed work on The Inquirer’s year-long project, “A More Perfect Union,” which examined Philadelphia’s role in creating the historic institutional racism that persists today. He has worked at Billy Penn and WHYY, in PR for a Philadelphia councilman, and as a political reporter for The Philadelphia Tribune.
Camila Veras Mota is a bilingual reporter working for BBC Brazil and the network’s English results. He previously covered macroeconomics for Brazil’s leading business newspaper, Valor Economico, and has worked as a correspondent in São Paulo, Berlin and London and across a variety of formats and platforms, including print media, real-time, online services, digital video, documentaries, live television and etc. radio. He holds degrees in journalism and accounting from the University of São Paulo.
Prinesha Naidu covers economics and government policy for Bloomberg News from Johannesburg and is deputy South Africa bureau chief. He has a deep understanding of trade, monetary and fiscal policy in sub-Saharan Africa and has interviewed dozens of central bankers, finance ministers and other political figures in the region. Prinesha previously reported for Moneyweb, where her coverage of the banking and insurance sectors won Citi’s Journalistic Excellence Award. He hosted primetime business shows on national radio and worked as a reporter and producer for Business Day TV, which broadcasts in nine southern African countries.
Taylor Nakagawa is digital editor for Crain’s New York Business, where she oversees the publication’s online presence, directs audience-centric reporting and edits investigative packages and business columns. In March, Crain’s received a Best Business Award for “Overall Excellence” from the Society for the Advancement of Business Editing and Writing. Previously, he worked at The Wall Street Journal, where he built editorial products to engage new readers, including a series of live events that open up WSJ reporting, interactive courses and a network of advisors to reach younger audiences. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism and lives in Brooklyn.
Lauren Rosenthal is a senior reporter for APM Reports, an investigative arm of American public media, and the host of In Deep, a program about an American city struggling to recover from climate disasters. He previously reported for public radio stations in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and on the edge of New York’s Adirondack Park. Lauren has contributed to ProPublica, NPR, Al Jazeera America, and more, and her work has won regional and national awards, including the Sigma Delta Chi Medal for Public Service Journalism. A native of Washington state, he is a graduate of Yale University.
The 2023-2024 Fellows were selected by a selection committee of media and business leaders, including The New York Times, Chicago Public Media and Lazard.