Shashwat Gupta Ray

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)

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