About

Hi! I'm Annika Sunkara, a third-year at Northeastern University in Boston pursuing a major in journalism and minors in political science and public relations. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and love all things college news, U.S. politics and social media.

I specialize in audience engagement, including social media, email newsletters and vertical video. Learn about the early-career experiences that have shaped my passion for audience journalism:

The U.S. House of Representatives — Washington, D.C.

For my first co-op at Northeastern, I was a press and digital media fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives from July to December 2024. In the office of now-retired Congressman David Trone (MD-06), I designed graphics, edited floor speech videos, compiled press clips, wrote press releases and newsletters and drafted talking points for speeches and interviews — all throughout the leadup to and fallout of the 2024 election.

The Huntington News (staff profile) — Boston

At Northeastern, I've spent nearly two years on the editorial board of The Huntington News, the university's independent student newspaper.

As social media editor (fall 2024 to spring 2025) and audiovisual editor (fall 2023 to spring 2024), I've focused on engaging and expanding the paper's audience by redesigning our graphic templates, spearheading vertical video production, developing visual branding and tightening our connection with our 4,000+ newsletter subscribers. Witnessing firsthand the tangible impacts that audience engagement strategy can have, both for our readers and our paper, has been the most rewarding part of the role.

I'm proud to be able to call The News' social media award-winning. In the Associated Collegiate Press' 2024 awards, we took third place in the social media reporting category for our live, multiplatform coverage of Northeastern's 48-hour pro-Palestine encampment and ensuing 98 arrests in April 2024. I was also interviewed by the Associated Press and France 24 when a spotlight was shined on student journalists nationwide covering encampments at their universities.