Knight-Bagehot Fellows of 2009-2010

Raul Gallegos

Martha Graybow

Martha Graybow, 38, has been a correspondent for Reuters since 2001 and currently oversees U.S. legal affairs coverage from the New York bureau. She graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1992 and took her first job as an education reporter for her hometown newspaper in Warrenton, Va. From there, she moved to The Associated Press in Richmond and was promoted to the AP’s International Desk in New York three years later. Graybow moved to Israel in 1997 and spent two years freelancing and copyediting for the English language edition of the daily newspaper Ha’aretz. Returning to New York in 1999, she joined the staff of CNNfn.com, where she covered healthcare for two years. She has received numerous awards from the Newswomen’s Club of New York and the National Press Club.

Jackson Hewett

Jackson Hewett, 33, a video producer for BBC’s New York bureau, creates up to three packages a day on corporate or economic news. In 2003, he joined BBC TV in London as a producer, cameraman and editor for domestic and international business news. He later spent two years in Dubai, where he covered business news in the Middle East region for the BBC. Raised on a small farm in rural Australia, he graduated from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 1999. Hewett took his first job in journalism in 2000, reporting on business news from Melbourne for "Business Daily," which aired on Sky News, Australia.

Roland Jones

Roland Jones '97, 37, is an editor and producer for the business news section of MSNBC.com, where he manages breaking news, edits stringers and writes a weekly column on the automotive industry. A citizen of the U.K., Jones earned a B.A. from the University of Birmingham in 1994 and edited a 150,000-circulation monthly soccer magazine in London for two years. After graduating with a M.S. from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in 1997, he worked as a senior editor for Thomson Financial and as a staff reporter for TheStreet.com before joining MSNBC in 2001.

Amit Paley

Amit Paley, 27, a financial investigative reporter for The Washington Post since 2008, broke a series of stories on loopholes, mismanagement and lack of oversight related to the $700 billion financial bailout. He joined the Post in 2004 as a metro reporter after graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he served as president of The Harvard Crimson. A series of stories he wrote in 2007 on the student loan industry spawned several Congressional investigations. As a foreign correspondent based in the Post’s Baghdad bureau, Paley contributed to a package of enterprising stories that were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Joellen Perry

Joellen Perry, 34, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal since 2006, covers the European economy and the European Central Bank from Frankfurt, Germany. Her notable front-page features include a pre-crisis profile of Hungary’s deteriorating finances and an analysis of risks during the U.K.’s debt-fueled housing boom. She graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College in 1996 and took an internship with USNews.com, the Web site of U.S. News & World Report, where she ultimately became a senior editor in the "Money and Business" section. Before joining The Wall Street Journal, she spent a year in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar, writing about German culture, foreign policy and economics.

Rob Wherry

Rob Wherry, 41, joined SmartMoney in 2005. He now serves as a senior editor for SmartMoney.com, where he oversees the site's investment coverage. He's penned four regular columns on mutual funds and exchange traded funds, one of which is picked up every week by The Wall Street Journal. He also helps produce a video series for the Web site that runs on occassion on sites like Yahoo! Finance. He worked for six years as a senior reporter at Forbes and two years covering politics for George. Before graduating in 1995 with a B.A. in English from the University of Delaware, he studied architecture at Drexel University.

Nicole C. Wong

Nicole C. Wong, 30, covered workplace issues, travel and tourism as a business reporter for The Boston Globe. After graduating with a B.S. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001, she interned at The Washington Post as a business reporter, covering technology and the ripple effects Sept. 11, 2001 had on air travel and the economy. She joined the San Jose Mercury News in late 2001 as a city hall and education reporter and became a business and technology reporter in 2005. In 2007, her enterprise articles on Hewlett-Packard’s layoffs and offshoring earned her a spot on TJFR Group’s “30 under 30” list of the country’s best young business journalists and the “Outstanding Emerging Journalist of the Year” award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California Chapter. She went onto The Boston Globe later that year.

Christine Young

Christine Young, 56, a business reporter for the Times Herald-Record (Middletown, N.Y.), has earned investigative journalism awards for both newspaper and TV reporting. She spent 15 years in Maine, where she was a reporter and anchor for the ABC affiliate in Portland and a reporter for the Lewiston Sun-Journal. She has received the John Jay Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting, the Online Journalism Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton, the National Headliner Award, the Clarion Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award. She was program host for the Emmy-winning "Quest: Investigating the World We Call Maine," produced by Maine Public Broadcasting and is the author of A Bitter Brew: Faith, Power and Poison in a Small New England Town, published by Penguin USA.  Young is a cum laude graduate of the University of Southern Maine.