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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It’s been one year since Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the first cases of COVID-19 in Michigan.That spring, Michigan became a COVID hotspot. The… -
March 10 marks one year since Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the first confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Michigan. Following that announcement,… -
Doctors have reported high increases in hospitalizations due to alcoholic-related liver diseases during the coronavirus pandemic. A Kaiser Health News… -
A report released Tuesday by the Citizens for Prison Reform calls for the decreased use of solitary confinement by the Michigan Department of Corrections.… -
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has identified 90 cases of the new coronavirus variant at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, in… -
A more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been detected at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility, in Ionia. According to an internal Michigan… -
The Michigan Department of Corrections is starting to send test results to a state lab to look for coronavirus variants.The variant of the virus from the…
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It's been seven weeks since the first COVID-19 vaccines were distributed in Michigan and, as of Monday, the state has now officially seen over one million… -
Students were made aware of the charges when School of Engineering Dean Alec Gallimore sent an email Thursday afternoon. -
COVID-19 tests, rent payment and food were the top three pandemic-related issues for state residents who reached out to Michigan 2-1-1, a subsidiary of…
