Ada is a reporter with more than a decade of experience covering breaking news and writing long-form stories for outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, and Gazeta Wyborcza. In 2021, she was selected as the IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow out of over a hundred applicants worldwide. During the fellowship, she reported for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, and carried out independent research on media freedom at MIT. Before that, she worked as a freelance foreign correspondent based in New Delhi and was part of the editorial teams at NewsMavens and Wysokie Obcasy.
Ada, who is based in Warsaw, has wide experience in a variety of journalistic forms, including investigations, analysis, features, documentary photography, and narrative podcast.
“This is a fascinating time to be reporting on Poland, and I’m thrilled to do it with BIRN. What excites me most is the chance to work alongside journalists across the region and dive into the kind of cross-border stories that are uncomfortable in all the right ways”, she said about her new role.
Ada will be part of the Reporting Democracy team. In this position, she succeeds Claudia Ciobanu, BIRN’s longtime correspondent and Fellowship for journalistic excellence alumna, who established our presence in Poland six years ago.
Reporting Democracy is a cross-border journalistic platform dedicated to supporting independent journalism to scrutinise the issues, trends and events shaping the future of democracy in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe.