Nisa Khan
Data ReporterNisa Khan joins Michigan Radio as the station’s first full-time data reporter. In that capacity, she will be reporting on data-driven news stories as well as working with other news staff to acquire and analyze data in support of their journalism.
Most recently Nisa has been working at the Detroit Free Press analyzing COVID-19 data. Additionally, she was a digital intern at Michigan Radio and worked with Michigan Radio's Peabody award winning Believed podcast team.
Nisa is a University of Michigan graduate in information science and has a Master’s degree in journalism from Stanford, where she focused on data and multimedia. She was a City University of New York (CUNY) Journalism Fellow at ProPublica where she did data journalism, as well.
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More people are living in West Michigan. That’s according to new numbers released from the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday.Ottawa, Kent and Allegan counties… -
Some of the state’s large school districts, including Utica Community Schools, Plymouth-Canton, Grosse Pointe and Grand Rapids, say they won’t require… -
Health officials are worried about the drop in routine childhood vaccination rates over the past year, especially as schools start soon.Over half of… -
Primary elections are Tuesday. And some ballots have proposals that could affect policing in a few Michigan cities, primarily through a city’s charter. A… -
A Black teenage girl said she was turned away from a Livonia skating rink after being pinged on its facial recognition software. But the girl, 14-year-old… -
It is another devastating statistic from 2020. Michigan had a 16% increase in drug overdose deaths in 2020 as compared to the previous year, according to… -
The University of Michigan is taking big steps to address sexual misconduct and institutional problems, hiring consultant Guidepost Solutions after a law… -
As the state reopens, city councils are deciding how to proceed after a year of online meetings.In Detroit, public health officials extended a local state… -
It was a last-minute, quixotic attempt to make a statement, any statement, about the future of policing in the city of Lansing.On May 17, just before… -
Walter Lasecki, a well-known University of Michigan computer science assistant professor, is resigning as of August 30 amid multiple allegations of sexual…
