For the Sun After Long Nights

Nilo Tabrizy is an investigative reporter for The Washington Post's Visual Forensics team where she covers Iran using open source methods. Previously, she worked as a video journalist at the New York Times, covering Iran, race and policing, and abortion access, and at Vice News covering drug policy and harm reduction. She is a winner of the Front Page Award for Online Investigative Reporting (2022), the POY 79 Award of Excellence (2021), the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (2016), a finalist for the 2025 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, and an Emmy nominee. Nilo received her M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University and her B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of British Columbia. Fatemeh Jamalpour is an Iranian journalist who has been interrogated, arrested, and jailed by the Iranian regime for her reporting on political unrest, state repression, and grassroots activism. Now living in exile in the United States, her work has appeared in the Sunday Times, The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times and Al Jazeera. Previously, she worked with the BBC World News in London and Shargh newspaper in Tehran. She has two master's degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago and Allameh University in Tehran. Fatemeh was a 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.