Kelly Golnoush Niknejad is the founder and editor-in-chief of Tehran Bureau, a news site she launched in November 2008. In 2012, Tehran Bureau's coverage of modern Iran was selected by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as one of "50 Great Stories" produced by alumni in the last 100 years. She is also the inaugural recipient of the Innovator Award from Columbia, and The Daily Beast named her one of 17 people who are changing the world through their editing, blogging, reporting, videos, and Twitter feeds. Tehran Bureau, currently hosted by The Guardian, was in partnership with PBS FRONTLINE from 2009-2012. Their first editorial collaboration on a documentary, "A Death in Tehran," won an Emmy for continuing coverage of a news story. Born in Iran, she moved to the United States when she was 17.