Zyma Islam
Senior Reporter at The Daily Star
Dhaka, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
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Top SchoolZyma Islam is an investigative journalist with 11 years' experience at The Daily Star in Dhaka, specializing in data-driven reporting on corruption, environmental disasters, health, and the judiciary. She combines traditional reporting with data analysis and visualization skills honed during an MS at Columbia Journalism School and a Magic Grant project that produced published health-sector investigations. Comfortable in newsroom and academic settings, Zyma has supported investigative teams at NPR and researched civic-media dynamics using data-mining methods on large social datasets. She freelances on investigations and communications consultancies, bringing practical experience translating complex datasets into compelling public stories. Notably, her early research traced Twitter’s role in Bangladesh’s major civic movement, demonstrating a long-standing blend of field reporting and computational approaches.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (cum laude hons.), Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (cum laude hons.), Asian Studies at Asian University for WomenColumbia University - Graduate School of Journalism
Bengali, English, Hindi
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Github contributions (5)
nprapps/sanctuary-cities
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:52 commits in 1 month
zymaislam/formalinfree
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 10 days
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