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April 17, 2020

Kourosh Ziabari – International Policy Digest: Media headlines these days are invariably dominated by developments surrounding the global outbreak of COVID-19 that first surfaced in Wuhan, China in December 2019, and was declared a “pandemic” by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. The deadly virus, which shares many symptoms with regular influenza, has affected over […]

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Kourosh Ziabari is a journalist and media studies researcher. A contributor to New Lines Magazine, he has earned a master's degree in political journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2022, he was named the recipient of the Professional Excellence Award from the Foreign Press Correspondents Association. He is an alumnus of the East-West Center's Senior Journalists Seminar Fellowship and a 2022 World Press Institute fellow with the University of St. Thomas, MN. Kourosh was a finalist for three Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He has covered the United Nations on a Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellowship and received the silver medal of the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for Coverage of Climate Change. He was a Chevening Scholar of the class of 2016/17 with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.