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Emily Kaiser is a journalist and adviser to media companies with a focus on building diverse, inclusive newsrooms. She invests in media startups with a track record of showcasing underrepresented voices. Ms. Kaiser is chairman of Global Press Institute, which trains and employs women journalists in developing media markets to report from some of the least-covered places on earth. She serves as Associate Director for the New Voices fellowship at the Aspen Institute, which provides media and advocacy training to development experts from around the world.
Ms. Kaiser was formerly a journalist with Reuters. Over a 20-year career, she covered financial and commodity markets, corporations and economics, with postings in Chicago, Washington, London and Singapore. She was editor-in-charge of company news coverage across Asia, and has reported from more than two dozen countries.
Ms. Kaiser earned her Bachelor of Science in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and studied Arabic at American University in Cairo. Originally from Tulsa, she currently lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, two sons and a rather spoiled beagle.
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