Manisha Ganguly, final year Doctoral Researcher at CAMRI, has been shortlisted for the Journalist of the Year Award for her work to expose human rights abuses in conflict and war.
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Their Journalist of the Year Award recognises five of the world’s most outstanding journalists who are using their stories to create a positive impact on people in their communities and countries. The awards focus on candidates who have highlighted the importance of having diverse voices in the media.
Manisha Ganguly, a multi award-winning independent conflict journalist and filmmaker using open-source techniques to investigate human rights abuses under conditions of war, was shortlisted for these awards. Her work using OSINT technology, a means of collecting information from openly available sources online, has allowed Manisha to be the lead producer for the BBC World Service’s Emmy-winning Arabic Documentaries teams.
In 2018, Manisha was granted funding by the Communication and Media Research Institute at Westminster to pursue her PhD on the impact that OSINT, AI and automation has had on investigative journalism. At 25, Manisha was also named a Forbes under 30 media innovator for her impactful journalism.
She also specialises in using open-source technology to document and expose human rights abuses in conflict zones. Her documentaries have exposed war crimes in Libya and Syria, human trafficking in the Middle East and uncovered the training of the killers of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Her investigative documentary produced for the BBC “Libya’s Game of Drones” has also won in the Best Investigation category at the Asian Media Awards.
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