Nandhini Srinivasan has been awarded the 2026 Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism.
The nine-month fellowship is presented as part of a partnership between Reuters, Durham University and Tina Brown, journalist and widow of acclaimed newspaper editor Sir Harry Evans. It places early career reporters in a Reuters newsroom to pursue a high-impact investigative project, supported by our experts and resources.
Evans is well-known for his successful ten-year campaign to win compensation for the victims of the thalidomide drug whilst editor at the Sunday Times. He also campaigned to introduce free cervical smear tests for women while at the helm of The Northern Echo.
Srinivasan is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, with a specialization in investigative journalism with 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 legalizing 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 program being scrapped in Miami-Dade county and the local school board investigating how the contract was put in place.
Srinivasan previously worked at Reuters in Bangalore as a U.S. headline news correspondent, before leaving to attend Columbia.
