Paroma Soni

Paroma Soni is a data and graphics reporter for POLITICO in New York, where she covers trade policy, agriculture and immigration for professional audiences. She was previously an associate visual journalist with FiveThirtyEight, where she worked on several graphics-driven investigations into election denial, abortion access and economic policy. She was a Delacorte Fellow at Columbia Journalism Review, where she investigated online censorship and press freedom in India as well as the systemic murder of journalists in Mexico – both long-form data projects that were named finalists for the SAJA Awards. She has contributed to many other publications, including The Markup's "Still Loading" series on internet speed disparity which won several awards, including the IRE Philip Myer Award, the 2023 Sigma Award and four SABEW awards. She has also been a video producer at BuzzFeed India in Mumbai, where she was born and raised. She has a master's degree in data journalism from Columbia University.