Kunāl Majumder

Adjunct Professor

Kunāl Majumder is a journalist, a media researcher and an educator with an interest in the areas of press freedom, journalist safety, misinformation, digital rights and media capture. In a career spanning 13 years, he has worked as a news reporter and held leadership positions in leading news outlets like Tehelka, Indian Express Group, Rajasthan Patrika Group and Zee Media Corporation. Kunal was one of the founding editors of the news website Catch News for the Rajasthan Patrika Group and the founding chief editor of the news website InUth for the Indian Express Group.

As a reporter, Kunāl has covered a wide range of topics from politics to business, from foreign affairs to human rights and from culture to conflict. Apart from India, he has also reported from Pakistan, Iran and Bangladesh.

Currently, Kunāl is a consultant with the Committee to Protect Journalists, an international non-profit institution that documents and researches press freedom violations and advocates journalist safety in India. He is also an advisor to Impulse Model Press Lab, Shillong which supports reporters who cover human trafficking, a visiting faculty at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Kunāl graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English literature, history and politics and Master of Arts in Convergent Journalism at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He was also an exchange student at Sciences Po, Paris.

Kunāl is one of the co-authors of More than Maoism: politics, policies and insurgencies in South Asia (Manohar Publications, 2012). In 2021, Kunal presented a paper on "Public Discourse, Platforms and Regulations" at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania.

Kunāl is a recipient of the UNFPA-Laadli Award for Gender Sensitivity and the Statesman Award of Rural Development. He was nominated to represent India at the Foreign Correspondents Programme, Helsinki in 2008 and European Union Visitors Programme in 2021.