Ana Arana
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Ana Arana is an award-winning investigative journalist and media trainer. A former U.S. foreign correspondent, her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Marie Claire, Newsweek, The Columbia Journalism Review, and The New York Times. She has received various journalism awards, including a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and an Overseas Press Club honor.
Arana has been a media trainer for various international groups in Africa, Latin America, and South and East Asia. She was a Knight International Journalism fellow in Mexico, where she trained investigative units. Arana was also a foreign correspondent in Colombia and Central America and a California reporter and television producer.
She also worked for the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, where she assisted in the creation of regional press freedom groups and wrote several ground-breaking reports, including one on the murder of immigrant journalists based in the United States.
Arana's podcast, Silenced: The Radio Murders—on the assassinations of three Haitian journalists in Little Haiti, Miami, in the early 1990s—was selected as one of the top 20 podcasts of 2023 by the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
Arana has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
