COLUMBIA, Mo. — International master’s student Laiba Khan Zai is the first recipient of the Missouri School of Journalism’s Robert F. Youngblood Investigative Fellowship, which will support her work on long-term investigative and data-driven projects with a $9,000 stipend and advanced training.
Named for journalist and editor Robert F. Youngblood, MA ’15 — and endowed by his widow, Ursula Liu — the yearlong fellowship provides support for complex, multifaceted stories that can otherwise be difficult to complete within the structure of a school year.
For Zai, the opportunity follows another fellowship with the School’s Reynolds Journalism Institute, which saw her spend the summer building accessibility and engagement tools at the Times Union in Albany, New York. And in addition to writing for the Columbia Missourian, the School’s community newspaper, she is also a student researcher with the Watchdog Writers Group (WWG), where she is assisting Pulitzer Prize-winning WWG Fellow Azmat Khan with her book about American aerial warfare.
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