Press, media & speaking engagements
Jareen has been interviewed in a variety of publications for her work in journalism, her social media skills, her experience with tackling issues like online safety for journalists, and her work with her nonprofit, Women Do News.
Make it stand out.
In 2021, Jareen was invited by the Wikimedia Foundation and the Asian American Journalism Association to speak about raising the profiles, stories, and voices of Asian American journalists online and beyond.
Featured in Columbia Journalism Review
In the summer of 2020, Jareen led a global team of journalists at NBC News to report on the intensifying situation in Portland as federal agents clashed with civilians and protesters. Her team was able to work with freelance journalists to capture harrowing footage of these incidents. Here’s a portion of her interview from the article:
“Media companies that weren’t local to the community were relying on social media footage in order to report on the most recent developments,” says Jareen Imam, director of NBC News Social Newsgathering, over email. Imam’s team has licensed several of Davis’s videos. “Especially because it takes time to deploy reporting crews, plus the threat of the pandemic,” she said.
Featured in media podcast
In this episode of “It’s All Journalism,” Jareen discusses the value that’s added when the biographies of notable female journalists are added to Wikipedia. Her work was also featured on the Take The Lead blog.
Feature in Poynter
In 2019, Jareen was interviewed by the Poynter Institute for her work on the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting incident. During her investigative work, she was targeted and harassed online. She describes her experience of how she navigated that difficult time while also leading a team and reporting on this important story.
Leadership publications
Jareen’s management style, where she tries to employ radical candor and empathy, has been featured in various publications and articles. This piece, written by a guest writer with the Poynter Institute, discusses Jareen’s techniques of providing feedback to direct reports.