Sham Jaff

Sham Jaff is an award-winning journalist and the founder of What Happened Last Week, an independent newsletter covering underreported stories from Africa, Asia, and the Americas through local media. She is also a journalist for ZDF and has written for outlets including The Guardian. In 2026, she was a Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where she researched audiences for Global South-centered journalism.