The Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism is a landmark partnership between Reuters, Durham University and Tina Brown CBE, award-winning journalist, editor, and widow of acclaimed Sunday Times editor Sir Harry Evans. The fellowship provides an unrivalled opportunity for an exceptional early-career journalist: a nine-month Fellowship embedded in Reuters’ London newsroom that includes undertaking an investigative project, mentored by top Reuters editors in the field, while having access to Durham University’s academics and research resources. It is designed to give the applicant the chance to develop rigorous, fact-based research and reporting skills.

Pete McKenzie has been awarded the 2025 Fellowship. Based in New Zealand, McKenzie is a contributing writer to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and the Economist 1843 Magazine, as well as his local outlets North & South Magazine and New Zealand Geographic. His investigative features focus on the politics of the Pacific, including exposing how corruption and mismanagement exhausted a major U.S fund in the Marshall Islands and how hundreds of Pacific veterans of America’s military are denied access to V.A. care.

The Sir Harry Evans Fellowship Committee was particularly impressed with McKenzie’s ethical and moral conviction, and his focus on pursuing stories with impact. He was chosen out of more than 1,000 applicants.

Steve Stecklow, a Reuters investigative reporter and chair of the Fellowship Committee judging panel, said, “We are very much looking forward to welcoming Pete to the Reuters enterprise team.  Although he’s early in his career, he has already published some very impressive investigations and is looking to further hone his skills. We can’t wait for him to begin the fellowship.”

Tina Brown said,  “We had so many outstanding applicants this year. Pete is the reporter I know Harry would have chosen for his rigour and high-hearted passion for searching out stories of injustice against people who are too often invisible in our world.”

Professor Karen O’Brien, Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, said, “Pete is an exceptional early career reporter in the vein of Sir Harry with his commitment to rigorous truth-telling and fearless enquiry. I’ve no doubt Pete will continue the outstanding standards set by our previous Fellows. We’re very much looking forward to welcoming him to Durham.”