Welcome new Journalist Associates

The college is pleased to welcome ten new Reuters Institute Visiting Journalist Associates at the start of the academic year.

Maxine Collins is a cameraperson and editor, BBC News.

Maxine is often deployed to challenging environments, documenting everything from earthquakes to wildfires to war zones, including coverage of the conflict in Kosovo, the earthquake in Haiti, uprisings in the Middle East and the invasion of Crimea.

Sheo Be Ho is Political editor, Lianhe Zaobao.

Sheo Be Ho has been working as a journalist in Singapore for over 20 years. She has reported for The Straits Times, TV and was a commissioning editor for a publishing house. During her journalistic career, she was posted to Shanghai to be Lianhe Zaobao’s Shanghai correspondent.

Hanna Käyhkö is Editor-in-chief, Karjalan Heili.

Hanna has worked for Finnish news outlets for 22 years. She has spent the past four years at the helm of Eastern Finnish local weekly news outlet, Karjalan Heili. She is deeply concerned about preserving local news media in the current business climate.

Hongqiao Liu is a journalist and independent consultant who has been tracking China’s environmental crisis and decarbonisation since 2010.

Born and raised in China, Hongqiao started her journalism career at Southern Metropolis Daily and Caixin Media, where she published a series of award-winning investigations.

Clara Lock is a Travel Correspondent for The Straits Times.

Clara Lock reports on local and international travel trends, and unearths tips to help readers travel better. She has written about destinations such as North Korea, Bhutan, Morocco and Uzbekistan. Clara views travel and lifestyle journalism as a conduit to explore socio-cultural issues.

Patrycja Maciejewicz is vice head of the business desk at Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish daily news print and digital outlet.

Patrycja has worked in the media industry since 2000 and her reporting specialises in macroeconomics, monetary policy, international economic relations, trade, and economic policies.

Christina Roman is a freelance journalist and current Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow with support from the Li Center for Global Journalism.

Christina is a 2023 graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where she served as board member for the campus chapter of The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.

Francisca Skoknic is the editor and a co-creator of LaBot, a journalism platform that includes a news chatbot, a newsletter and investigative reporting outlet.

Francisca is the former director of the Diego Portales University’s journalism school and prior to that was the deputy director of CIPER, a Chilean center for investigative journalism.

Noelia Vetach is a Journalist & SEO editor, Aire De Santa Fe.

Noelia has been working as a journalist in Argentina for the past nine years. She began work as an intern at Canal Nueve Litoral before becoming a news reporter for Aire De Santa Fe, an online news outlet. She was promoted to a role as news editor before taking on a new challenge as SEO editor.

Oumar Zombre has worked as a journalist in Burkina Faso for 12 years, including seven years at the national broadcaster as a TV anchor.

Oumar also works as a freelance reporter, contributing to reports for international outlets including the New York Times. He has been embedded several times during anti-terrorism operations.

Green Templeton College is proud to be the home of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, engaging newsroom leaders from around the world and exploring the future of global journalism.

Neville Maxwell, a former foreign correspondent for The Times, established the Reuters Foundation Fellowship Programme in 1983 to complement the University of Oxford’s ongoing research on international development. The programme soon began to grow and a dedicated Journalist Fellowship was established in 1990, which moved into residence at Green College two years later.

The Reuters Institute in its current form launched in 2006, retaining its strong affiliation with Green Templeton.

Each year, the journalist fellowship programme welcomes experienced, practising journalists from multiple countries who travel to Oxford for one, two or three terms. They attend seminars, talks and newsroom visits to understand the challenges facing the industry, and undertake research into a chosen topic related to their work.