Sophia Tewa

Sophia Tewa is News Verification Editor for NewsGuard, based in New York. Her work spans documentaries, multimedia and data journalism.

Tewa has filmed and produced videos and short documentaries for UNICEF, the Vineyard Gazette, and CNN.com, among others. She has written about personal finance and higher education for Money magazine. Until 2018, she was an online producer for Hearst Connecticut Media.

Her work has appeared in the Guardian, VICE News, and Time.com. She has also taught multimedia production at the New School and the City University of New York.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Lehman College and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.