Kadia Tubman

About

Kadia Tubman is an national news correspondent on Scripps News's Disinformation Desk. Formerly, she was the Managing Editor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Insider's global newsroom. Prior to that leadership position, she was the Senior News Editor guiding Insider's breaking news and enterprise coverage on weekends. She was a regular panelist on MSNBC and NBC News. Kadia was previously a national politics reporter at Yahoo News, covering breaking news, voting rights, and immigration. Kadia was also a 2018 Reuters journalist-fellow at the University of Oxford, where she researched how global newsrooms regulate user-generated content to prevent disinformation and mitigate harm.Kadia is committed to teaching and leading the next generation of journalists and news consumers. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School and Hunter College, where she teaches ethics and news literacy, respectively.Kadia received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Babson College. She went on to become a marketing and communications strategist, working for global media companies like MTV/Viacom and the audience measurement company Nielsen. She made a career pivot in 2017 and left Wall Street to earn a master's in journalism from Columbia University, where she focused on narrative storytelling and journalism ethics. Kadia is passionate about breaking down barriers to inclusion, building community, and giving people the information and inspiration they need to lead their lives. Her mission in life is to inspire hope, compassion, and courage in others to visualize and actualize a world that is better for everyone.Kadia was born in Brooklyn, New York, and lives in the Bronx with her wife and dog. Her family is from Liberia and Guinea, West Africa, two countries she hopes to visit and write about in the near future. Her passions include helping people real-ize their dreams, making gif-filled presentations, watching spoken word, journaling on the subway, and getting through TSA in record time.-written by Kadia Tubman, not AI