Biography

Kann Vicheika is a freelance journalist based in Phnom Penh. Since 2016, she has reported for Voice of America (VOA) Khmer, a multimedia news outlet with large audiences in Cambodia. She covers politics, human rights, social justice, and social issues.

From 2014 to 2016, she was a reporter at Voice of Democracy, an independent media outlet based in Cambodia. She received the Indigenous Voices in Asia (IVA) Regional Award from Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation (AIPP) in 2015, after she produced the video documentary “My land my life”.

Kann Vicheika also covered the US presidential election in 2016. She has joined a number of journalism capacity-building programs, including a study tour at Berlin to strengthen communication between state institutions and the media (2017), an ICFJ program for covering women's, children's and adolescents' health in India (2018). She obtained a bachelor's degree in law at the Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia.