Iqra Salah

Iqra Salah is a print and video journalist focusing on investigative storytelling and Open Source research.

She has written stories for the Fuller Project, The Guardian, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Berkeleyside and Environmental Health News.

Prior to Berkeley journalism school, she worked as a video journalist and was a reporter for BBC in Nairobi where she covered news from Africa. She has also worked with CNN as a freelance field producer and Africa Uncensored, Kenya’s first independent investigative media house as a reporter and researcher.

 

EMPLOYERS

  • Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley
    Jan. 2022-

  • BBC
    Reporter
    Mar. 2019- Aug. 2021

  • PesaCheck/Facebook
    Fact checker and Verification reporter
    Nov. 2018- Mar. 2019

  • CNN- Nairobi Bureau
    Field Producer
    Mar. 2017- Aug. 2018

  • Africa Uncensored
    Reporter/researcher intern
    Aug. 2016- Feb. 2017

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 2022 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow

  • Overseas Press Club Foundation Walter and Betsy Cronkite Scholarship

  • Mastercard Foundation Scholarship

MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS

  • Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)

  • National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)

REPORTING INTERESTS

Human Rights, Investigative reporting, Longform journalism, Open Source Investigations, Visual Investigations