Dr Manisha Ganguly, an ex-CAMRI Doctoral Researcher at the University of Westminster, has been appointed as an Investigations Correspondent at The Guardian.
Ganguly is a multi-award-winning conflict journalist. Earlier this year, she was named Journalist of the Year 2022 by One Young World.
Recently, she has won a Women of the Future Award in the Media category. The Awards celebrate the most prominent and talented women in the UK working across a range of fields.
Her work specialises in using open-source techniques to expose war crimes in conflict areas. She has uncovered human rights abuses in Syria and Libya as well as human trafficking in the Middle East. Her research at Westminster focussed on the future of Investigative Journalism and the role automation, open-source, and artificial intelligence plays in it.
In 2021, she was named in the Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 list of people to look out for who are working in the media in Europe.
Speaking about her recent appointment, Ganguly said: “I’m proud to be joining The Guardian’s 200-year-old legacy of holding power to account by working in its award-winning Investigations team, which is one of the best teams doing this kind of work internationally. It is an immense privilege.
“Investigative journalism is my passion because it’s the only form of journalism that exposes the problem, campaigns for the victim and advocates for real change, whether systemic or personal. It is vital in ensuring checks and balances in a functioning democracy, especially so at a time when so much is obscured by the fog of war.”
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