Reuters race and justice editor Kat Stafford shared the next message with employees on Wednesday:
Expensive colleagues,
I’m thrilled to announce three appointments to the International Race and Justice workforce. Collectively, the workforce will pursue new and bold initiatives with a view to producing agenda-setting protection within the areas of race, identification and social justice. They may also collaborate and work with bureaus throughout Reuters‘ world newsroom.
Bianca Flowers, U.S. Correspondent — Bianca, a Chicago native and completed journalist, has spent the final two years at Reuters masking manufacturing, the bedrock of the U.S. financial system. She lined world steelmakers, agriculture, and building producers. Her reporting has centered on the mixing of automation in manufacturing and the development of good farm know-how. Bianca’s experience additionally encompasses in-depth protection of labor unions, together with her contributions to masking the historic United Autoworkers (UAW) strike in 2023 and the acquisition of U.S. Metal. Beforehand, as a Senior Video Journalist at Dow Jones, she reported on private finance, revenue equality, and variety within the tech business. She is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate Faculty of Journalism and the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Bianca relies in Chicago.
Layli Foroudi, Europe Correspondent — Layli joined Reuters virtually two and a half years in the past as a correspondent in Paris and has labored on information and initiative tales associated to migration, discrimination, police violence and the far-right. Previous to becoming a member of Reuters, she was primarily based in Tunis for 3 years as a contract journalist for the FT, Occasions of London, and Thomson Reuters Basis, amongst others, and beforehand labored as a TV producer for Al Jazeera English in London. Layli speaks native English, fluent French and Russian, and colloquial Arabic. She accomplished a grasp’s diploma in race, ethnicity and battle at Trinity School Dublin in 2016 and has had stints working in the UK, Russia and Tajikistan. Layli relies in Paris.
Disha Raychaudhuri, Knowledge Journalist — Disha joined Reuters in 2020 as a knowledge reporter on the authorized information workforce the place she lined a variety of subjects together with chapter, opioid settlements and the legislative push to limit transgender healthcare. She was beforehand a knowledge reporter at The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, primarily masking demographics, inequality and policing. She moved to the U.S. in 2016, after stints in India and Bangladesh the place she lined schooling and produced oral historical past initiatives. She has additionally been a mentor for the Maynard 200 fellowship and a co-creator of the JOC Useful resource Information. Disha speaks fluent English, Bengali and Hindi and has intermediate proficiency in Urdu. Disha relies in Washington, D.C.
Bianca, Layli and Disha will report back to me. Please be a part of me in congratulating them.
Kat