Hannah Frances Johansson

I am a reporter for the Pittsburgh Media Partnership Newsroom, a wire service for 35+ outlets across southwestern Pennsylvania, including Spotlight PA, Technical.ly, and the Tribune-Review. 

My reporting has appeared on CNN, Michigan Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, Pittsburgh's Public Source, the Fresno Bee, Poetry Foundation, and Bay Nature Magazine, among other outlets.

In May 2025, I completed my master's thesis at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism — a magazine story about farmland consolidation and water politics in the Central Valley. 

In 2025 I was awareded an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award.

Prior to journalism I worked briefly in ecology. I have a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies, also from UC Berkeley, where I was a Regents' Scholar.

I continue to freelance alongside my reporting job, and am open to Pittsburgh-based tape syncs.