Salma Loum is a data and graphics fellow for the Los Angeles Times. She moved from Cairo to Los Angeles after covering the Egyptian Revolution and Muslim Brotherhood unrest between 2011 and 2013. During that time, she was a freelance war-zone camera operator working with Sky News Arabia and BBC Arabia among other local Egyptian news stations. 

Loum graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in journalism with a focus on computational investigative projects involving women’s rights. 

Loum's most recent bylines are with the Los Angeles Times covering diverse topics from sexual assault to mental health in youth. Before that, she was at the Minneapolis Star Tribune data team covering the reverberations following George Floyd’s murder and the effects of the pandemic on domestic violence.

Her interests include hot yoga, hiking, traveling the world, and everything cameras. She is based in California, yet traveling the world and working with people who challenge her is her number one drive. Her passport is always ready for a new adventure.