The "two New Hampshires" project about struggling middle & working class residents

Michaela Towfighi

Michaela Towfighi reports on struggling middle-class and working-class residents for the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire. Prior to joining the Monitor full time, she was a summer intern there. A 2022 graduate of Duke University with a degree in public policy and journalism and media studies, she covered education, COVID-19 and the 2020 election and helped edit stories about the Durham County Courthouse for The 9th Street, a Duke newsletter, and North Carolina’s Indy Week. Her story about a family grappling with a delayed trial for a fatal car accident in Concord, New Hampshire won top honors in Duke’s Melcher Family Award for Excellence in Journalism. Towfighi is an American expat who calls London home, despite not having picked up a British accent just yet.

Concord Monitor

The Concord Monitor is a daily paper and news site that covers Concord, the New Hampshire State House and dozens of communities in the center of the state. It reports on annual town meetings in the smallest communities and the largest issues facing the state. The Monitor is consistently recognized as one of the best of its size in the New England Newspaper & Press Association awards competition.