Giulia Heyward
Reporter, Digital News
Giulia Heyward is a weekend reporter for Digital News, based out of New York. She previously covered education and other national news as a reporting fellow at The New York Times and as the national education reporter at Capital B News. She interned for POLITICO, where she covered criminal justice reform in Florida, and CNN, as a writer for the trends & culture team. Her work has also been published in The Atlantic, HuffPost and The New Republic.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Hussman School of Journalism and Media, where she was a fully funded Roy H. Park Fellow. She received the Tom Wicker and Outstanding M.A. Student awards in 2020, and 2021, respectively. She also received the 2021 Curve Award for Emerging Journalists, in collaboration with the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, and the 2021 Student Journalism of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
