Fellows

Jessica Weisberg is writer, producer, and journalist. She is currently the supervising features producer at “Vice News Tonight” on HBO, a nightly documentary program. Previously, she was a producer on the award-winning podcast “Serial” and at Page 1, Mark Boal’s production unit, where she developed fictional projects based on news events. Her writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Elle, Harper’s, and many other publications. She was a 2017 finalist for the National Magazine Award for a story about child protective services published in The Atavist magazine. She’s at work on her first book, a …

Leah covers antitrust for Politico. She previously spent eight years at MLex, a regulatory news service owned by LexisNexis, where she led a global team of reporters focused on competition policy. She has also written for Bloomberg and Congressional Quarterly. Leah was an Abe Journalist Fellow in 2014 and spent her time in Japan focused on a reporting project on price- fixing cartels and cartel deterrence policies.

Philip J Cunningham is a freelance writer and media consultant with an interest in journalism, politics and culture. He was trained in Asian studies at Cornell University and the University of Michigan and has worked in East Asia since 1983. He started working as a tourguide for study abroad programs and luxury tours, including a stint on the luxury yacht formerly used by Chairman Mao as a Yangtse River cruise director. He moved into film production work, including credits on two Academy Award winning films, The Last Emperor and Empire of the Sun. He has worked on numerous television documentaries,