Megha Rajagopalan: Every generation has to find a way to reinvent the model

Joining us for our second episode is Megha Rajagopalan, international investigative reporter at the New York Times. Megha is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist focusing primarily on human rights, labour and conflict. Her extensive reporting has taken her to China, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Before the NYT, Megha was a trainee then political correspondent at Reuters, and China bureau chief at Buzzfeed.

With our hosts Freya Shaw and Marine Saint, we hear the challenges Megha overcame in her investigations, the value of gaining your sources’ trust and how beat reporting is the best way into the field.

Our team: 

Marine Saint

Marine is a freelance features and news reporter who graduated from Columbia Journalism School with a Masters in Journalism in 2024. Starting off as a columnist and deputy-editor at Bristol University paper Epigram, Marine recently interned for the Financial Times Investigations and Weekend team. She now writes on business, culture and gender equity for the FT.

Freya Shaw

Throughout her undergraduate degree, Freya worked as a videoeditor for different activist groups, before pursuing a Masters in Investigative Journliasm at City University. She has worked on various Investigative projects, most recently Radio 4 and Tortoises’ The Naked Week, and is a Summer 2025 Audience Fellow at The Economist.