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Shashwat Gupta Ray
Present Position: Associate Professor (Journalism)
Department of Journalism, School of Media & Communication
E-mail: shashwat1.guptaray@adamasuniversity.ac.in
Education:
- Master in communication Studies, (MS University of Baroda)
- BCom, (Savitribai Phule University of Pune)
Experience:
Adamas University, Kolkata [Associate Professor]
- Working as lecturer at School of Media and communication
- Teaching Mobile Journalism, New Media, Folk Media, Digital Journalism
- Mentor of PG Journalism student
- SoMC coordinator for CDC activities
Uncovering India {YouTube channel}
- Done video feature life of children around Sundarbans National Park caught between climate change, Covid and Tiger.
- Highlighted hardships faced by waste-pickers of Pune due to Covid-lockdown 2.0
- Special report on double whammy of social stigma due to HIV and uncertainty caused by Covid-lockdown on HIV+ adolescents.
Gomantak Times [Resident Editor] {Panaji}
- As Editor, led my team to successfully produce the online and offline editions during the initial days of Covid lockdown.
- Did extensive coverage of lockdown and its impact on people
- Extensive reporting was done on hardships faced by tribals of Goa
- Gave coverage to the issues of physically and mentally challenged persons in Goa
Sakal Times [Sr Reporter to Asst Editor] {Pune}
- Covered 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai
- Handled multiple beats for reporting viz. Science & Tech, Health, Defence, Education and Business
- Groomed young reporters and interns
- Managed the Bureau
- Coordinated with Reporting Bureau, Features, Sports and Desk
Tehelka
- Did special feature on Maoist movement in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra
- Exposed the involvement of Hindu rightwing fundamentalists in triggering terror attacks in North Maharashtra
- Covered July 11, 2006 Mumbai local train serial blasts
Press Trust of India [Reporter] {Mumbai}
- Worked in Economic and General Bureau
- Covered Shipping, textile and pharmaceutical industry
- In General Bureau covered Income Tax, Entertainment and Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police
Accolades and awards received:
- Uncovering India YouTube channel:
- Received award from Psychiatric Society of Goa for my video feature on mental health issues faced by HIV+ adolescents in Goa due to Covid lockdown in 2020.
- Gomantak Times:
- Best Editor Award for Communal Harmony & National Integration in 2018.
- Two Excellence in Reporting awards from Govt of Goa for Health and Art & culture special stories in 2017.
- Letter of appreciation from Indian Navy for our Covid coverage assistance provided by Goa Naval Area to Goa government in fighting Covid-19 outbreak
- My correspondent won two consecutive Excellence in Reporting awards for Health Rural reporting.
- Gomantak Times:
- Won award for excellence in Science Reporting from Govt of Maharashtra in 2015
- Won journalism Environment reporting award in 2014.
- Won award for Science and Defence reporting in 2013.
- Press Trust of India:
- Was given Best Corporate Story award in 2005 by PTI
- Work used as reference by researchers in India and abroad
- The Political Economy of Conflict between Indigenous Communities and Dominant Societies: Adivasis, Maoist Insurgents and the State in the Central Indian Tribal Belt: by JJ Kennedy, University College London – School of Public Policy (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2781722)
- Gangsters or Gandhians? The Political Sociology of the Maoist Insurgency in India by Jonathan Kennedy, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
(https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14736489.2014.937268)
- The Secular State and the Geography of Radicalism, by Irfan Ahmad published in the Economic and Political Weekly
(https://www.epw.in/journal/2009/23/perspectives/secular-state-and-geography-radicalism.html)
- India and the Challenge of Terrorism in the Hinterland, Strategic Analysis, 2010 by Kalyanaraman.S, Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. , (https://www.academia.edu/2437179/India_and_the_Challenge_of_Terrorism_in_the_Hinterland)
- Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster, Book by Suroopa Mukherjee