Meet some of the Gen Z journalists awarded the Clare Hollingsworth Fellowship for the Foreign Correspondent's Club in Hong Kong: Jay Ganglani, Kriti Gandhi, and Samra Zafalqar.

The Fellowship is named in honour of Clare Hollingsworth, a legendary journalist and a long time member of the FCC - most famously associated with what has become known as the scoop of the century - when as a rookie reporter way back in 1939 travelling through Poland she spotted and reported the German army forces massing on the Polish border.

She didn’t stop there - she went on to travel to and report from Palestine, Algeria, China, Yemen and Vietnam, earning herself the moniker the “doyenne of the war correspondents” and died just 8 years ago here in Hong Kong at the ripe old age of 105. She’s a shining example of a journalist forever curious, forever ambitious and forever in the hunt for the big story - and you’re about to meet some of the people who have been selected by the FCC panel to receive the Clare Hollingsworth fellowship.

Jay and Kriti have just spent the last 12 months as Hollingsworth Fellowship holders, and reflect on the experiences in that role as well as what they've witnessed in the newsrooms they work in. They share the mic with Samra Zulfaqar, one of the newly announed Hollingsworth Fellowship holders for 2025-26, along with Trista Xinyi Luo.

Learn more about the Clare Hollingsworth Fellowship: https://www.fcchk.org/fcc-clare-hollingworth-fellowship-2025-2026-applications-open/

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Gen Z journalists talk careers, dealing with AI, phone/life balance & beyond: FCC’s Hollingsworth Fellowship

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Gen Z journalists talk careers, dealing with AI, phone/life balance & beyond: FCC’s Hollingsworth Fellowship