Ava Hu

Ava Hu

Ava Hu

Class of 2026

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Ava Hu is a bilingual reporter focusing on data reporting and local accountability stories. She’ve been working on campaign finance, city budgets and public records. Her reporting on election-related misinformation targeting Asian Americans was published by The Guardian.

Ava holds a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism and marketing from Syracuse University and is pursuing a master’s degree in data and business reporting at the University of California, Berkeley.

EDUCATION

  • University of California, Berkeley, Multimedia
    2024-2026

  • Syracuse University, Broadcast Journalism 2019 - 2022

EMPLOYERS

  • Richmond Confidential, local reporter

  • The Guardian, election reporter

  • Vox Media, publishing intern

  • 端傳媒 Initium Media, editorial intern

  • The Jerusalem Press Club, foreign correspondent

  • NCC News, Syracuse student newsroom, producer

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Dow Jones News Fund Summer Internships, Data Journalism, 2025

  • IRE&NICAR, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting Scholarship Award, 2025

  • 2024 Asian American Journalists Association Early Career Scholarship

  • Greater China Alumni Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship

  • Maria Riccardi Scholarship for outstanding female undergraduate student in journalism

  • 2022 Annual Report of Beijing Youth Daily, Generation Z Channel

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • AAJA