Congratulations to the 2026 OPC Foundation 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 University


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


Jinger Zhang, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Shartia Brantley, Bloomberg

John Daniszewski, Associated Press

Eddie Evans, E2-Communications

Tim Ferguson, OPC Foundation

Joe Flint, Wall Street Journal

Allan Dodds Frank, OPC Foundation

Paul Haven, Associated Press

William Holstein, OPC Foundation

Adam Horvath, Wall Street Journal

Karen Mahabir, Associated Press

Russell Midori, WPIX

Jim Pensiero, OPC Foundation

Sarah Rabil, Wall Street Journal

Michael Serrill, OPC Foundation

Ed Tobin, Reuters

Karen Toulon, NBC News

Tiffany Wu, Reuters

Laura Zelenko, Bloomberg

Thank you to the judges: