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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Dearborn's Arab and Muslim communities organized an array of pro-Palestinian protests during President Joe Biden's visit to a vehicle plant on… -
Black residents faced disparities in hospitalizations during the third coronavirus wave, according to data from the University of Michigan. The MI Safe… -
The Paycheck Protection Program awarded about $16 billion to 128,159 small businesses and nonprofits in Michigan in the first two rounds of PPP funding.… -
On a recent evening in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, notes from a guitar played by a busker on the sidewalk reverberated off the walls of the… -
The federal government won't be sending additional vaccines to Michigan. That's despite Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s efforts to secure more shots as cases… -
Four Muskegon County deputies and one former Wellspath nurse have been charged with involuntary manslaughter Thursday over the death of a man in jail. In… -
Michigan continues to lead the country in dismal COVID-19 indicators, according to a Wednesday update by the state's Department of Health and Human… -
More than 2,600 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 as of April 2, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services. That's more than… -
Lorenzo Garrett felt abandoned when he was in prison. “No one really cares about you,” he said. In prison, you get used to a limited routine, he said, and… -
Idalis Pagan didn’t think it would be so long before she got to see her uncles. But if she can travel to the prison, like she plans to in the next month,…
