Back in April, we invited journalists and bloggers to apply for two Long Island Wins fellowships, one in immigration news reporting and one focusing on immigrant culture reporting.
After receiving many excellent applications, Long Island Wins is pleased to announce that we’ve selected our spring 2010 reporting fellows, Leslie Josephs and Naveen Sultan.
Leslie Josephs, an experienced journalist who has reported from Peru and Costa Rica for the Associated Press, Reuters, and Dow Jones, will cover the immigration news beat.
Leslie will spend the first month of her fellowship examining migration from the other side of the border in Mexico City. In July, she’ll join our team here on Long Island, focusing on ground-up local reporting.
Naveen Sultan, a multimedia journalist who currently works as an associate producer and blog editor at telegraph21.com, will anchor our LI culture section, using video, audio, photography, and written blog entries to explore the rich cultural contributions that immigrants bring to Long Island.
From Salvadoran bakeries to traditional Irish dancing, Naveen will keep readers abreast of the cultural happenings in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. She’ll start blogging in early June.
Congratulations to our spring 2010 fellows—we look forward to working with them over the next six months.
Here’s some background on Leslie and Naveen:
Leslie Josephs
A Queens native, Leslie Josephs is a freelance journalist who has reported from Latin America for the past five years. She has covered human rights, the environment, natural resources, indigenous and women’s issues, and politics in the Andes and in Central America. Leslie is the English-language editor of Latinamerica Press/Noticias Aliadas, a bilingual, Peru-based non-profit news journal with a focus on the region’s marginalized populations.
Naveen Sultan
Naveen is a freelance multimedia journalist. She currently works for telegraph21.com as an associate producer and blog editor. In the past, she’s worked with PBS, Time Inc., and BBC. She holds a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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