Kaela Malig
Former Tow Journalism Fellow, FRONTLINE/Columbia Journalism School Fellowship
Kaela Malig was a Tow Journalism fellow at FRONTLINE in 2023-24. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on investigative reporting, foreign correspondence, and video journalism. As a student, she produced in-depth stories on New York’s childcare crisis and legal barriers on filing sexual assault cases. While at Columbia, she was a Brigid O’Hara-Forster and Association of Foreign Press Correspondents scholar and was awarded with an Overseas Press Club scholarship and duPont Awards fellowship.
Before coming to New York, she reported on the bloody Philippine drug war and the orphaned children it left behind. A four-time...
Stories from Kaela Malig
Where Does School Segregation Stand, 70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education?
‘Documenting Police Use of Force’ Filmmakers & Reporters on Navigating Obstacles in Their Reporting
What Has Happened to Boeing Since the 737 Max Crashes
A Guide to the Criminal Cases Against Donald Trump
‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Filmmaker on What is Left of the City After the Russian Invasion
How Russia’s Press Freedom has Deteriorated Over the Decades Since Putin Came to Power
Nobel Prize-Winning Journalist Maria Ressa Acquitted of Tax Evasion in Philippines
Afghanistan, Two Years After: Taliban Repression and Humanitarian Crises Intensify
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