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Keerti Gopal wins Ida B. Wells investigative fellowship
Gopal is a Chicago-based reporter covering the intersections between climate change, public health, and environmental justice at Inside Climate News.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Fri, 20, Feb 2026
- 02:19 EST
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Chicago-based reporter, Keerti Gopal. / Linkedin/@Keerti Gopal
Keerti Gopal has been selected among 10 professional journalists by the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting to participate in its 2026 Fellowship Program.
Gopal is a Chicago-based reporter covering the intersections between climate change, public health, and environmental justice at Inside Climate News.
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This Fellowship Program is the second cohort of an effort launched last year to help emerging journalists enhance their reporting skills and produce investigative projects by providing them with intensive training over a course of six months.
Gopal, who is also a documentary filmmaker, has previously covered climate activism and movement repression and completed a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship in Taiwan, researching climate action and resilience.
We're excited to introduce our 2026 Investigative Reporting Fellows!
— Ida B. Wells Society (@IBWellsSociety) February 19, 2026
For the next six months, the Society will train these 10 journalists to enhance their reporting skills and produce investigative projects for impact.
Get to know the Fellows:https://t.co/CnybD5qBJq pic.twitter.com/ZqO40bOEwY
She has also completed fellowships with Solutions Journalism Network and The Lever.
Gopal earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from Northwestern University in 2021, where she was active in climate activism with the youth-led Sunrise Movement Chicago.
Her 2020 short documentary film about first responders in the early COVID-19 pandemic premiered at the American Documentary Film Festival and won a Midwest College Emmy Award.
She was also selected for One World Media’s Global Short Docs Forum for international filmmakers.
Ron Nixon, director of the Associated Press Local Investigative Reporting Program and one of the co-founders of the Society, mentioned that the 2026 edition reflects the changing face of investigative journalism as it mostly involves freelancers and individuals working for nonprofit newsrooms.
The 2026 Fellows participated in a virtual orientation last week and will begin attending the first of a series of weeklong training sessions in Atlanta on Feb. 22 with some of the news industry’s top investigative reporters and editors.
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