Sir Harry Evans Fellow in Investigative Journalism - 2026

Nandhini Srinivasan has been awarded the 2026 Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism.

Nandhini is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with a specialisation in investigative journalism at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism.

At Columbia she reported on the poor conditions of public housing and the legal challenges facings its residents, as well as the pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

Upon earning her journalism degree, she was an investigative reporting fellow at the Tributary in Jacksonville, Florida, where she covered education politics in the state.

Nandhini also compiled public data to report on state legislator Vicki Lopez’s involvement in legalising school bus cameras in Florida, a move that financially benefited a company that had just hired her son in a senior executive position.

Working jointly with The Miami Herald, she produced a follow-up investigation on the same company’s school bus camera program in Miami, which was erroneously fining drivers.

The coverage led to the programme being scrapped in Miami-Dade county and the local school board investigating how the contract was put in place. 

Nandhini previously worked at Reuters in Bangalore as a US headline news correspondent, before leaving to attend Columbia.

About the Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism

The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism is part of a program honouring celebrated British-born journalist, editor and author Sir Harry Evans, one of the pioneers of modern investigative journalism. Sir Harry (1928-2020) was an undergraduate at University College, Durham, and became internationally celebrated as the crusading editor of The Sunday Times under the paper’s ownership by Lord (Roy) Thomson. The work he spearheaded throughout his career, from corporate investigations to revelations of government wrongdoing and incompetence, created a model for reporting in the public interest and demonstrated the real-world impact journalism can have.

The fellowship launched in Sir Harry’s honour is designed to give promising early-career journalists the opportunity to develop rigorous, fact-based reporting skills. The fellow will be supported by Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study, which hosts projects and international fellows working across academic disciplines

Alongside the investigative journalism fellowship, the Sir Harry Evans Memorial Fund will launch an annual, agenda-setting forum on the journalism profession, the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism. The first takes place on May 10 and 11, 2023 at RIBA London.

Find out more about the Sir Harry Evans Memorial Fund.