Vishal Arora is a journalist, writer, photojournalist, and videographer based in New Delhi, India.[1] [2]

He is the publisher and editor of Newsreel Asia, an OTT news media.[3] He was previously the editor of StoriesAsia, a collective of journalists from South and Southeast Asia.[4][5] He resigned from StoriesAsia in January 2021. He used to be the Features Editor[6] of The Caravan, a fortnightly journal of politics and culture published from Delhi, and an editor at Indo-Asian News Service.[7] Arora writes on politics, religion, culture, human rights and foreign affairs in south and south east Asia for national and foreign media. Arora particularly coves Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.[8]

Arora teaches journalism and storytelling, as a guest faculty, at Indian Institute of Mass Communication.[9] Arora is on the advisory board of the John McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute in New York.[10]

Arora has reported on hundreds of incidents of communal violence in India, mainly against the Christian minority. Arora was invited as a witness at a briefing titled, "the Threat Religious Extremism Poses to Democracy and Security in India: Focus on Orissa", organised by the United States Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom on 10 December 2008 in Washington DC.[11] Arora has also presented papers on the mixing of religion and politics in seminars organised by the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life in Washington DC.[12] Arora was also invited by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the U.K. for a conference on ‘Religion, Media and the Commonwealth’[13] in March 2020 to speak about the 2020 communal violence in Delhi. Arora has also taught journalism in Uganda.[14]

Arora, along with his colleague Harshita Rathore, was finalist in the 2021 EPPY Awards for The Dinner Table docuseries published by ReligionUnplugged and Newsreel Asia, in two categories: Best Collaborative Investigative, and Best Feature Video.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Calendar, The Events (10 June 2019). "Past Events – Tibet Policy Institute". Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  2. ↑ "Vishal Arora's Profile | Newsreel Asia Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Vishal Arora and , listing of Vishal Arora". Newsreel Asia. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  4. ↑ E20 Vishal Arora: The rise of Hindu nationalism, retrieved 1 February 2023
  5. ↑ "Why our 12 Principles are so urgently needed – C J A". 11 October 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "Vishal Arora". World Politics Review. 24 December 2015. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Indian diaspora respected for ethics, success: Tory MP". Hindustan Times. 16 February 2007. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  8. ↑ "Vishal Arora's Profile | Newsreel Asia Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "Faculty Details:Indian Institute of Mass Communication". iimc.gov.in. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  10. ↑ February 24; Wilkinson, 2015 | Alissa (24 February 2015). "John McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute to Join with The Media Project". The King's College. Retrieved 21 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "Vishal Arora – The Diplomat". thediplomat.com. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
  12. ↑ Mofidi, Sabah (1 March 2014). "The Electoral Function of Religion in Contemporary India". Rochester, NY. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3482045. SSRN 3482045. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ↑ "Religion, Media and the Commonwealth". The Round Table. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  14. ↑ "Senior journalists urged to mentor juniors". New Vision. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  15. ↑ "2021 EPPY Award winners: Honoring the best in digital media". Editor and Publisher. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2022.


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