Meet Zamourad Iqbal, one of the students the California Press Foundation is supporting through its Internship Grant Program this year.
This spring, she is interning with The Southlander, a worker-led nonprofit investigative news cooperative serving Greater Los Angeles. In her role as a social media intern, she produces news content and supports investigative reporting focused on local government, education, public safety and community issues.
A student at Pierce College, Zamourad serves as an editor for The Roundup, the college's student-run newspaper. She is also a member of EdSource's Student Corps, a freelance reporter for the Southern California News Group and a contributor to the Colorado Boulevard Newspaper.
She is committed to uncovering important issues through investigative and visual journalism and hopes to pursue a graduate degree in data journalism and political science.
Explore some of Zamourad's reporting:
Cal Press’ Internship Grant Program is made possible by donors and partners committed to strengthening the future of local news. Through opportunities like these, Cal Press strengthens the pipeline from education to industry by investing in emerging journalists as they build professional newsroom experience.
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