Preethi Nallu

Preethi Nallu is co-founder and executive director at Report for the World, a local journalism support program that spans the global majority. She was a founding editor at News Deeply.

Born in Iran, raised in India, Preethi’s career spans 14 countries across the north and south. She has researched, reported and campaigned about humanitarian and media development issues. Her films and reports won multiple Webby awards, Migration Media awards, and the Amnesty Human Rights Press Prize.

Preethi has worked with mainstream media outlets such as Al Jazeera English and Foreign Policy, think tanks such as Chatham House and Samuel Hall, and led multimedia campaigns for the UN, and global NGOs such as the Norwegian Refugee Council and International Media Support.