The fellowships are generously funded by the Abrams Foundation and The Tow Foundation.

BOSTON, MA — Mon., Sept. 12, 2022 — This fall, FRONTLINE (PBS) welcomes its newest class of journalism fellows: Chantelle Lee, Tow Journalism Fellow, FRONTLINE/Columbia Journalism School Fellowship; and Julia Ingram, Abrams Journalism Fellow, FRONTLINE/Columbia Journalism School Fellowship.

Lee and Ingram represent FRONTLINE’s eighth cohort of journalism fellows. In their year-long fellowships, they will pursue and report stories for the award-winning investigative series, resulting in transmedia projects and contributing to upcoming documentaries. Their fellowships are generously supported by The Tow Foundation and the Abrams Foundation.

Lee joins FRONTLINE joins FRONTLINE after graduating from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism in May 2022. While there, she co-reported a story about how people incarcerated in New York prisons in the 1980s created peer-led education programs to destigmatize HIV/AIDS, which won the university’s Fred M. Hechinger Journalism Education Award.

Previously, Lee was a national desk reporter at The Globe and Mail in Toronto and a breaking news reporter at The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California, covering stories ranging from wildfires to healthcare. She also interned at NPR Weekend Edition, producing several segments on how the Trump administration’s immigration policies were affecting migrant families.

Lee holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with honors in 2019. During her undergraduate career, she worked at The Daily Californian, an independent, student-run newspaper that covers the UC Berkeley campus and the city of Berkeley, as a reporter, news editor, opinion editor and eventually managing editor. Lee’s fellowship is supported by The Tow Foundation.

Julia Ingram joins FRONTLINE after graduating with a master’s degree in data journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in August 2022. As a student, she reported data-driven stories on ADHD patients left hanging after the decline of a mental health app and on independent pharmacy closures in parts of New York already lacking primary care services.

Before studying at Columbia, Ingram graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in English. At Stanford, she wrote and edited for the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and worked on a collaborative data collection effort with Big Local News. She has also interned on The Washington Post’s data team, in NBC News’ investigative unit and on the Miami Herald’s breaking news desk.

“Our Columbia Journalism School fellows have become an integral part of our newsroom and have greatly bolstered our original digital reporting capacity over the past seven years,” says Raney Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE. “We are tremendously grateful to The Tow Foundation, Columbia and the Abrams Foundation for their ongoing support for these fellowships, and we welcome Chantelle and Julia to FRONTLINE,” adds Aronson-Rath, herself an alumna of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

“We’re extremely proud of this collaboration with FRONTLINE. As with the previous cohorts we eagerly look forward to the projects that will come out of Ms. Lee and Ms. Ingram’s fellowship. says Jelani Cobb, dean of Columbia Journalism School. “This is a great moment for all of us.”

Uncovering stories and using boundary-pushing, platform-first approaches to telling them, FRONTLINE Journalism Fellows have played a key role in FRONTLINE’s ongoing work to meet audiences where they are, across the evolving digital landscape.

About FRONTLINE
FRONTLINE, U.S. television’s longest running investigative documentary series, explores the issues of our times through powerful storytelling. FRONTLINE has won every major journalism and broadcasting award, including 100 Emmy Awards and 28 Peabody Awards. Visit pbs.org/frontline and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube 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 funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park 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.

Abrams Foundation
The Abrams Foundation, based in Boston, was founded by Amy and David Abrams in 1997. Its mission is to nurture creative, deeply informed communities, while promoting equity and fairness. Grant making is concentrated in three areas: journalism and narrative, arts and creativity, and access and opportunity.

The Tow Foundation
The Tow Foundation, established in 1988 by Leonard and Claire Tow, supports visionary leaders and nonprofit organizations that serve historically marginalized populations, help individuals contribute to their communities, and champion advancements and experiences that make it possible for all people to live healthy and joyous lives. It invests in innovative programs and reform in culture, higher education, journalism, justice and community wellness, and medicine. For more information, visit www.towfoundation.org or follow The Tow Foundation on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Columbia Journalism School
For more than a century, the Columbia Journalism School has been preparing journalists in programs that stress academic rigor, ethics, journalistic inquiry and professional practice. Founded with a gift from Joseph Pulitzer, the school opened in 1912 and offers Master of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science in Data Journalism, a joint Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Journalism, The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism and a Doctor of Philosophy in Communications. It houses the Columbia Journalism Review, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights, The Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security, and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. The school also administers many of the leading journalism awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, the John Chancellor Award, the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism, Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award, the Mike Berger Awards and the WERT Prize for Women Business Journalists. Journalism.columbia.edu.

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