Manisha Ganguly, who won the Vice Chancellor’s scholarship to study on the Multimedia Journalism MA course and is currently a Doctoral scholar in Media Studies at CAMRI, has been shortlisted for two different young journalist awards.
She was recognised by the Asian Media Awards and Association of International Broadcasting (AIB) for her work with the BBC Arabic Documentaries over the last year. Her debut documentary, ‘War Crimes for Likes’, exposed how war crimes committed in the Libyan civil war were being shared online to incite violence, identified the Libyan National Army’s special forces committing these crimes, and tracked down its survivors in exile.
She has also worked on investigations that exposed war crimes by Russian planes in Syria, tracked down the foreign jet that bombed the migrant detention centre in Libya, documented an online human trafficking network across the Gulf, investigated how an IRGC-backed airline spread coronavirus across the Middle East, and more.
Ganguly has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Young Journalist category by the Asian Media Awards who will be announcing the winners on 19 November. She was also nominated for the Young Journalist Award category by the AIB who will be revealing the results on 13 and 16 November.
Speaking on her achievements, Ganguly said: “I am thrilled and humbled to have been selected by the judges and am deeply thankful to the AIBs and Asian Media Awards for recognising my work. My investigations would not have been possible without my supportive editors at BBC Arabic, Simon Cox and Mustafa Khalili, and my mentor Nick Davies.
“And finally, as a young immigrant woman of colour, I do hope that this visibility encourages other young women to not shy away from investigative journalism, which often tends to be a white male dominated space. "
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