Four early-career journalists from leading media outlets in India and China were selected to receive the 2015 EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Reporters. The fellows attended the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, California.

Sijie Ni

China Science Daily | China

Sijie Ni has been working as a journalist for China Science Daily for more than a year. She covers breaking news and other comprehensive scientific topics. The topics she covers range from ecology and life sciences, to high energy physics and astronomy. She also published several exclusive news reports, for example, she conducted in-depth reports on the discovery of primordial gravitational waves and the progress of China's Kuafu Project. Her news reporting is well acknowledged by news editors, scientific communities and the public in China. She is a frequent winner of China Science Daily's Monthly Best News Reports, and her news articles are often cited by other media outlets in China.

Miao Zhang

Xinhua News Agency | China

Miao Zhang graduated from Communication University of China and majored in International Journalism. He received a Master of Arts degree in July 2011. He began his career as an editor in Xinhua News Agency's International News Department after graduation. In 2013, he was appointed as the science correspondent at Xinhua News Agency's Geneva Bureau. He has conducted interviews with researchers from the WHO, WMO, CERN, UN agencies, international organizations and research institutes. The topics he covers include Ebola and Avian flu outbreaks, dark matter, air pollution, El Nino, and solar planes.

Maitri Porecha

Daily News and Analysis | India

Maitri Porecha has worked for two years with a daily broadsheet newspaper, Daily News and Analysis (dna) in Mumbai. She reports on a myriad of issues related to health and medicine with a special focus on tuberculosis, HIV and their inter relation with human rights. She has done extensive work of documenting lives of patients living with the dreaded extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XXDR-TB) and TB-HIV co-infection for which in 2013, she was awarded a fellowship by the National Press Foundation to cover The Union Lung Health Conference at Paris, France. She writes about poor drug manufacturing facilities of the pharmaceutical industry in India. She has reported extensively on the illegal internet sale of prescription drugs as well as the horse racing industry rackets that involve pumping of steroids in horse feed. In 2008, she worked as a trainee journalist with CNBC TV18. She holds a Masters of Arts in Political Science and International Relations.

Shreya Dasgupta Madan

Freelance Journalist | India

Shreya Dasgupta Madan is a freelance science and environmental journalist from Bengaluru, India. She has written for various national and international publications including Mongabay, New Scientist, The Scientist, The Guardian (Environment Blog), Nature India, India Bioscience, and others. While she reports on stories from around the world, she especially loves covering science stories from India. She graduated with a bachelors in Zoology and masters in Environmental Science. She also worked as a wildlife researcher for four years studying tigers and elephants, before plunging into the world of freelancing in 2013. She was awarded third place in Mongabay's contributor awards in 2013, and received a fellowship from the Society for Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Elyssa Rosen Memorial Fund to attend and report from the SEJ conference in 2014.

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