Nithin Coca

Nithin Coca is a Japan-based, Asia-focused award-winning freelance journalist who investigates climate, environment, human rights and supply chains across the region. He has been awarded fellowships from The Pulitzer Center, the International Center for Journalists, the Solutions Journalism Network, and the Earth Journalism Network, and his reporting has appeared in outlets in North America, Asia, and Europe, including Vox, Financial Times, BBC Future, Mongabay, Nikkei Asia, Yale E360, Dialogue Earth, The Nation, Coda, and Engadget. In 2022, Coca led a cross-border collaboration on waste to energy in four countries for an investigative series published in four languages, which was awarded the AAJA Excellent in International Reporting Award.