Kenya/Tanzania
karen.rothmyer@gmail.com

Project Goal: Will spearhead a program that brings high-quality coverage of previously ignored issues such as health, environment and poverty to citizens of Tanzania and Kenya.

Partner: The Nation (Kenya) and HakiElimu (Tanzania)

Biography: Karen Rothmyer decided to become a journalist after starting a school  newspaper  in  Kenya,  where she served in the  Peace Corps. For the past eight years she has been managing editor of The Nation, the largest-circulation U.S. magazine of political  commentary.

Previously, she worked as a reporter and/or editor at news  organizations including Newsday and the Wall Street Journal. She also taught for several years at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia, wrote a book about the Pulitzer Prizes and won an IRE award for investigative reporting.     

This is her second Knight fellowship; she spent five months (2005-6) in Kenya, where she taught at the University of Nairobi and conducted newsroom workshops.