JAN. 13, 2025 — BOSTON, MA — FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, are pleased to announce that Sunny Nagpaul has been selected as one of the series’ 2025 Tow Journalism Fellows. The year-long position is funded by The Tow Foundation.

Nagpaul received her master’s degree in journalism in 2023 from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on health and science.

While at CUNY,  she reported for two hyper-local publications in the South Bronx, addressing issues like Black maternal morbidity and mortality, mental health resources and Bronx fashion. She also reported on how insect farms in Oregon are providing a local supply of natural fertilizers, reducing international reliance on chemical fertilizers and improving soil’s health and ability to store carbon.

Over the course of her fellowship, Nagpaul will have the opportunity to work alongside FRONTLINE’s filmmaking teams to aid in the development of the series’ acclaimed documentaries. This work will include contributing to the research and development of stories, reporting out leads, wrangling and analyzing data, helping set up interviews and shoots, as well as various tasks as documentaries undergo editing, vetting and post-production. She’ll also have opportunities to contribute to FRONTLINE projects on other platforms — including pursuing and crafting shorter-turnaround digital stories for FRONTLINE’s website, as well as working with the series’ Local Journalism Initiative, which supports local news outlets producing investigative journalism projects.

“For the past six years, our Tow Journalism Fellows from Newmark have bolstered FRONTLINE’s journalism and served as a critical resource to our digital team, and our investigative reporters and filmmakers,” said Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE’s editor-in-chief and executive producer. “I’m so pleased to welcome Sunny to our team and look forward to seeing the great work that she will do. We’re thrilled to continue our journalism fellowship with the Newmark J-School and grateful to The Tow Foundation for their generous support of FRONTLINE’s journalism and public media mission.”

“Our school is very proud that Sunny Nagpaul has been named a Tow Journalism Fellow at FRONTLINE PBS,” said Graciela Mochkofsky, dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. “Sunny brings to FRONTLINE exceptional creativity, dedication, and the skills to produce meaningful journalism. At Newmark J-School, we take great pride in preparing our students to serve the public through their reporting. I have no doubt her work will make us proud, and I look forward to celebrating her contributions to the FRONTLINE team.”

After graduating from Newmark in 2023, Nagpaul most recently completed a six-month fellowship at Fortune Magazine where she reported on national breaking news in finance, technology and business. There, she also wrote long-form features on the challenges incarcerated women face upon release from prison, student protests and acts of civil disobedience, and poor conditions at city homeless shelters. As a journalist, Nagpaul writes about how policy impacts marginalized communities and pursues investigations on systemic issues, like low wages, corporate concentration, and national policies. Her reporting has been published in outlets including Atmos, The Baltimore Banner, City Limits, The Indypendent and Illinois Eagle.

About FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won an Academy Award® as well as every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 108 Emmy Awards and 34 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Facebook to learn more. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and is broadcast nationwide on PBS. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.

About The Tow Foundation
The Tow Foundation was established in 1988 by Leonard and Claire Tow as a way to give back to the communities that shaped them. Its five primary impact areas are equity and justice, medicine and public health, arts and culture, higher education, and civic engagement. Grounded in its decades of work in Connecticut and New York and based in New Canaan, CT, the Foundation supports visionary leaders and nonprofit organizations to find and enact innovative solutions to persistent inequality. It works to ensure people can become full participants in their communities, achieve transformative and lasting progress, and develop approaches that allow everyone to reach their full potential.

About the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, founded in 2006, is a public graduate journalism school based in the heart of New York City. With affordable tuition and extensive scholarship support, it prepares students from diverse economic, racial, and cultural backgrounds to produce high-quality journalism. The school offers 16-month master’s degree programs: M.A. in Journalism, M.A. in Engagement Journalism, and M.A. in Journalism – Bilingual Program (English/Spanish). Through the school’s J+ division, which offers a suite of executive training programs, the J-School trains seasoned journalists to reimagine news business models, build news products, and step into leadership roles with an entrepreneurial mindset. The Newmark J-School is also home to four unique centers and initiatives: the McGraw Center for Business Journalism; the Center for Community Media; the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism; and the Journalism Protection Initiative.

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