Omar Mohammed
The Boston Globe has hired Omar Mohammed as a reporter covering the economy of Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts.
Mohammed has been working at Newsweek in the Boston area after being a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University in 2022.
He previously was East Africa business correspondent for Reuters based in Nairobi, Kenya. Earlier, he reported for Bloomberg News covering business, economics and politics in Tanzania, and served as East Africa reporter for Quartz based in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.
Mohammed also spent a year in the United States as a Hubert Humphrey Fulbright Fellow at Arizona State University and also was an ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow in Dar es Salaam.
He was a finalist for the 2019 Deadline Club Awards as part of Reuters coverage of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
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