The Knight-Bagehot Fellows
Meet the 2011-2012 fellows in economics and business journalism
Lisa Chow
Lisa Chow, 34, is economics reporter at WNYC Radio, and contributes regularly to nationally broadcast shows, including “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” “Marketplace,” “This American Life” and “Planet Money.” Before joining WNYC in 2006, she was assistant editor for NPR’s “Morning Edition” based in Washington, DC. She has written or produced for a variety of news outlets in New England, including the Boston Globe, WBUR, The Eagle Tribune and Foster’s Daily Democrat. Recipient of New York Press Club’s 2010 Best Business Reporting and Garden State Journalism Association’s 2010 Best Radio Feature, she earned a B.A. from Brown University in 1999 and an M.A. from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2004.
Thomas Gryta
Thomas Gryta, 35, has covered the biotech and generic drug industries for Dow Jones Newswires since 2007, writing columns, features and breaking news for the newswire and The Wall Street Journal. He graduated with a B.A. in history from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998 and joined Dow Jones six months later as a news assistant in the London office. He moved to New York and has held a variety of positions, including reporter, writer and editor. In 2009, he was a member of the team that won a Best in Business award for the newswire’s coverage of Pfizer’s acquisition of Wyeth.
Noa Kolp
Noa Kolp, 31, is a correspondent based in New York for Israel’s Globes business newspaper and Channel 10, a leading television station in Israel. Before moving to New York in 2010, she worked five years as director of economics and business desk for Channel 10, where she supervised coverage and anchored the nightly business program. She got her start in 1998, right out of high school, when she was selected to participate in a journalism training program for Galey Tzahal, Israel’s army radio, making her the first Modern Orthodox Jewish woman accepted into the station in its 50 years of existence. She holds a B.A. in economics and art history from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Anora Mahmudova
Anora Mahmudova, 33, is news web editor for The Financial Times, where she oversees the U.S. and Asia edition homepages and edits and writes for the Beyondbrics blog. She grew up in Uzbekistan, and while attending Tashkent State University, won a scholarship to study at Pace University from which she graduated with a B.A. in journalism in 1999. Fluent in English, Russian and Uzbek, she has lectured at Columbia, Northwestern University and Buffalo State College on journalism, politics, feminism and Central Asia. A former correspondent for the BBC World Service, she has written on international affairs for publications across the globe and edited three books on finance and investing.
Hajime Matsuura
Hajime Matsuura, 41, is senior columnist in the New York bureau of The Sankei Shimbun, one of the most influential national newspapers in Japan. Writing in his mother tongue, Japanese, he also contributes to publications such as Toyo Keizai and Economist Japan. He graduated with a BA degree in law from Sophia University in 1995, and started his career as a staff writer for NIKKEI covering monetary and fiscal policy. He moved to New York in 2006 to be U.S. senior correspondent of NIKKEI, where he led many task forces and won numerous prizes for investigative stories on high profile corporate and legal cases. In 2010, Hajime earned an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and Executive MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is currently writing a book about U.S. capitalism.
Dave Michaels
Dave Michaels, 35, is Washington correspondent for business news for The Dallas Morning News, where he writes about policies and regulation that affect North Texas companies, including airlines, health care firms, telecommunications companies and energy producers. He joined the newspaper in 1997, two weeks after graduating cum laude from Georgetown University, starting out as a city reporter on the police beat. In 2004, he moved to the Austin bureau, where he covered the death penalty, state prison system and the Texas Legislature. Before joining the News’ Washington bureau, he was a senior writer for The Record (Hackensack, N.J.), where he wrote about aviation, mass transit and transportation security.
Karla Palomo
Karla Palomo, 33, is a contributing correspondent and multimedia content producer for Fox News Network. Fluent in English and Spanish, she has also provided special multimedia reports for Yahoo! and several international publications. From 2004 to 2009, she worked for Bloomberg News in New York as a business reporter, anchor and interviewer for the Spanish-language TV and radio division. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she worked as a news writer and assignment editor for Univision in Chicago and was the first Hispanic journalist to produce and host a financial news webcast in Spanish from the floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange. She grew up in Guatemala City and moved to the U.S. in 1997 to attend Columbia College Chicago, where she received a B.A. in broadcast journalism and graduated with honors in 2001.
Asher Price
Asher Price, 32, is the environmental reporter for the Austin American-Statesman, where he has worked since 2004. He has also had stints at the San Diego Union-Tribune, The New Republic, the Denver Post and the Times of India. His work has also appeared in The Washington Post and The American Prospect, among others. He has received numerous awards, including Best of Cox, Deadline Writing as part of a team dispatched to cover Hurricane Rita in 2006. He earned a B.A. in English at Yale University in 2011 and received an M.Sc. in comparative social policy in 2003 from Oxford University.
Andres Schipani
Andres Schipani, 33, is Miami-based reporter covering southeastern U.S., Latin American and Caribbean issues for the Financial Times. Previously, he was based in Bolivia, filing radio, online and television stories for BBC News. Born in Argentina and fluent in English, Spanish and Italian, he started his career in 2003 as an international news desk reporter for the Buenos Aires Herald. His work has taken him to South America, the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe for The Economist, The Guardian, The Observer and The New York Times, among others. He earned a B.A. in journalism in 2006 from Cardiff University and an M.Sc. in global governance and diplomacy in 2007 from St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
Nick Tattersall
Nick Tattersall, 33, chief correspondent based in Nigeria for Reuters, began his career in 2000 as a Reuters graduate trainee in London. He worked in Frankfurt and Berlin before moving to Africa in 2004, where he has reported from more than a dozen countries. Promoted in 2008 to his current position, he now manages a team of more than 15 reporters, photographers and TV colleagues in one of Africa’s most challenging environments, as well as training stringers and new recruits. He earned a B.A. in modern languages from Oxford University in 2000.