Congratulations to the 2026 Scholar Award Winners


Reva Abrol, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism


Gibran Boyce, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY


Hyeyoon Cho, University of California, Berkeley


Hanna Davis, New York University


Sonya Dymova, Northwestern University


Hamza Adel Fahmy, University of California, Berkeley


Will Fitzpatrick, New York University


Maggie Grether, Yale University


Fiona Kelliher, London School of Economics


Kelly Liu, University of California, Berkeley


Maggie McCabe, Davidson College


Ben Raab, Yale University


Josie Reich, Yale University


Yurii Stasiuk, Yale University


Lottie Tellyn, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism



Pau Torres Pages, New York University


Seven Wu, University of California, Berkeley

Shartia Brantley, Bloomberg

Bill Collins, OPC Foundation

John Daniszewski, OPC Foundation

Eddie Evans, E2-Communications

Tim Ferguson, OPC Foundation

Joe Flint, Wall Street Journal

Allan Dodds Frank, OPC Foundation

Paul Haven, Associated Press

Caitlin Hu, CNN International

William Holstein, OPC Foundation

Adam Horvath, OPC Foundation

Karen Mahabir, Associated Press

Larry Martz, OPC Foundation

Marcy McGinnis, Exact Communications

Jim Pensiero, OPC Foundation

Sarah Rabil, Wall Street Journal

Charlie Sennott, The GroundTruth Project

Michael Serrill, OPC Foundation

Brunella Tipismana, OPC Foundation Scholar ’24

Ed Tobin, Reuters

Robin Topping, Newsday Media

Karen Toulon, Versant Media

Tiffany Wu, Reuters

Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg


Jinger Zhang, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Thank you to the judges: