Fellows & Editors
Sruthi Gottipati
- Trip:
- Fellows 2017
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Colombia
- Year:
- 2017
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Sruthi Gottipati is a freelance journalist based in Paris, France. She also teaches courses in reporting and writing and journalism ethics to graduate students at Sciences Po, and ponders the future of the news biz as a contributing editor at digital magazine Worldcrunch. She was previously based in India as a local reporter for The New York Times and then as a politics and general news correspondent for Reuters. Prior to that, she was a reporter for the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper in the United States. Gottipati has spent a decade in print, television, and digital media, covering stories that ranged from corruption and sexual violence to natural disasters and terror attacks. A reporting fellowship from the International Women’s Media Foundation took her to Africa in 2016. Gottipati holds a Master’s from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Stories
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She spent half her life as a rebel soldier in Colombia before fleeing to save her baby
Years before Leidy Johana escaped on a motorcycle from the stifling jungles of Colombia in the dead of night, a forbidden baby in her belly, she was just a rebel without a...
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These Colombian women built their own city to escape violence. But peace is still elusive.
A decade ago, unknown arsonists burned down a community center in northern Colombia where children were schooled and recreational activities were held. The center was empty. The effort, it appeared, was to...
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Families brave generations of Alzheimer’s in Colombia
Medellin, Colombia - When Gladys Betancur Piedrahita was a young girl growing up on a coffee farm in the Andes mountain town of Angostura in Colombia, her grandmother fell ill. Gladys watched...
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Colombia’s female FARC fighters wage a new war, for gender parity
When Angie Rios, 27, left to join communist rebels as a teenager, she told her mother never to change her phone number. Nine years later, Rios is a seasoned guerrilla and sports a...
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