Visiting Faculty Fall 2025

Saeed Ahmed is the VP of News for Digital Platforms at the AP. He leads the news organization’s efforts to deepen engagement with audiences on site, social and other emerging platforms — and bring AP’s world class journalism to more people, in more modern ways.

Prior to that, he was the head of digital journalism at the BBC, tasked with conceiving and executing on a strategy to radically grow audience, impact and commercial revenue in North America. 

Ahmed also served as the director of digital news at NPR and he led CNN’s content diversity initiative.

Molly O’Toole is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist working on The Route, a nonfiction book on global migration through the Americas to the United States, for Crown Publishing, a Penguin Random House imprint. She is also developing an accompanying podcast.

O’Toole was recently the immigration and security reporter for The Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C., and a fellow at the Wilson Center, New America, MacDowell, and the Rockefeller Foundation. From Latin America to South Asia, O’Toole has written and worked for outlets such as Foreign Policy, Defense One, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, the Associated Press, Reuters, and more.

She was awarded the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting in 2020 with This American Life, and served as a juror for the 2024 and 2025 Pulitzer Prizes in Explanatory Reporting. Her work has also been recognized by the Livingston Awards, the National Press Club, the Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism, among others.

Tal Kopan is the Deputy Washington Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe. She joined the newsroom in 2022 from The San Francisco Chronicle, where she spent four years covering Washington and national politics as the paper’s Washington Correspondent. Previously, she covered D.C. politics, immigration policy, justice and national security, cybersecurity and other hot-button issues for CNN Politics and Politico.

Her work has earned multiple awards and recognition, including winning the prestigious George Polk Award with Chronicle colleagues for coverage of a COVID-19 outbreak aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier and winning a Webby Award with colleagues for a documentary podcast series on the life and career of Vice President Kamala Harris. Kopan has received other recognition from the California News Publishers Association, Atlanta Press Club, National Press Foundation, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Aaron C. Davis is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post who has won the Pulitzer Prize twice and has been a finalist three times. He was a lead writer and reporter on the Post’s investigative series into the January 6 attack, which won the George Polk Award, the Toner Prize, and, with other Post coverage, the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

In 2018, he was part of a Post team that won the Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting. Davis has reported from fourteen countries. He began at The Washington Post in 2008, after reporting for the Associated Press, The Mercury News, and Florida Today.