Digital Editor

Qainat Khan

Qainat Khan is The GroundTruth Project's former Digital Editor. Qainat came to GroundTruth from the WBUR newsroom, where she was the Associate Producer of the local Morning Edition program. Before coming to Boston, Qainat got her journalism degree at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and interned at StoryCorps, the national oral history project. She got her undergraduate degree at Colby College, where she studied Music and Gender Studies. When she isn't at work, you'll find Qainat in the wilds of Maine.

Silhouetted film shoot (Photo by Till Krech/Flickr User)

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Best practices for working with ‘fixers’ and staying safe abroad

This article originally appeared in Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. Local journalists...

Jun 26, 2018

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Tips for reporting meaningful stories without the guarantees of a free press

While the United States has enshrined press freedom in the first amendment to the Constitution, U.S. journalists are...

May 30, 2018

Journalist May Jeong talks to Democracy Now from Kabul, Afghanistan on February 1, 2018. (Screenshot from Democracy Now)

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Getting your bearings in a new place as a freelance foreign correspondent

May Jeong only recently moved back to the U.S. after spending four years as a freelance foreign correspondent...

May 20, 2018

With the U.S. midterm elections around the corner, reporters will be quoting poll results. Here's a checklist to assess the quality of polls and surveys. (OSCE/Flickr)

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A checklist for assessing polls and surveys

Polls and surveys can be an important resource to understand how people feel about hot button issues. But...

May 02, 2018

The debate on immigration has become extremely polarized. How do you write stories that say something new? Find people who've never been asked about their experiences. Pictured: protesters in Boston's Copley Square on Jan. 29, 2017, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order known as the "Muslim ban." (Photo by Giulia Afiune/GroundTruth)

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Two Los Angeles Times reporters have this advice for improving your immigration reporting

We asked Cindy Carcamo, the immigration reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Anh Do, who covers Asian-American...

Apr 17, 2018

Katie Sartoris and her team had to search through boxes of archived cases to find the jury verdict records for the prisoners on Florida's death row. Pictured, the Florida Supreme Court. (jmv0586/Flickr Creative Commons)

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How a small team created a high-impact data reporting project

We’ve talked in the past about spreadsheets and public records for data journalism. You don’t have to be...

Apr 03, 2018

A scene from the red light district in Angeles City, Philippines. In their work on human trafficking victims and survivors, our climate fellows worked through NGOs to meet some of their sources. (Hannah Reyes Morales/The GroundTruth Project)

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Finding sources who ‘live in the shadows’

One important service of journalism is giving voice to the most vulnerable people in society. Phillip Martin, an...

Mar 21, 2018

Reindeer herding families gather at this corral in northern Sweden to mark their calves. (Camilla Andersen/GroundTruth)

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Reporting responsibly on suicide and mental illness

This article originally appeared on Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. If you...

Mar 07, 2018

It can to strike the right balance between having a personality and maintaining journalistic standards in your social media presence. Pictured, President Barack Obama addresses student journalists at College Reporter Day on April 26, 2016. (Pete Souza/The White House)

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How to discover your voice on social media (without undermining your journalism)

This article originally appeared on Navigator, GroundTruth’s newsletter for early-career journalists. You can subscribe to Navigator here. The rules...

Feb 21, 2018