Dr. Tabeenah Anjum

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Tabeenah Anjum is a senior journalist, media educator and internationally acclaimed visual storyteller. With over a decade of experience in print as well as multimedia journalism she reports on politics, gender, human rights, migrant rights and issues impacting marginalised communities, from Rajasthan and also covers socio-political issues related to the Hindi heartland of India.

She presently writes for the Outlook magazine from Rajasthan. She was the former Bureau in-charge of Deccan Herald newspaper in Rajasthan and continues to write opinion pieces for the publication. Her long-form reportage, political analysis and absorbing features have also appeared in reputed publications such as The Caravan, Article-14, The Gaon Connection, The Quint, News 18, BBC, DNA, Rajasthan Patrika, Counter-Currents and The Telegraph.

With the requisite experience of both daily reporting and filing special long-form pieces which involve considerable analysis and research, she is also comfortable with tools of visual storytelling, such as photography, videos and podcasts. A passionate photographer, she is the recipient of the National Award in Photography (2015) conferred by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, recipient of Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II Award ( 2017) for excellence in photography and her photographic artworks have been exhibited in India, Nepal, and South Australia.

Apart from the ground reporting, it is the research that makes journalism much more exciting for her. Dr Anjum did her Master's in journalism from University in Rajasthan and completed her PhD in 2016. She has been a recipient of the UNICEF Media fellowship in 2016 and researched in tribal areas of Rajasthan. She has also authored a book titled, ‘Social Media And Social Activism’.

She presently teaches across media institutes in India. She is the co-course director of the Basics of Visual storytelling course at FTII, Pune since 2019 and also a visiting faculty with IIMC Delhi and Dhenkanal since 2017 and affiliated college at Rajasthan University since 2013. She is a Board of Studies member at the Central University of Rajasthan and UPES University, Dehradun. She is also a member of the reviewer panel of Research Journal, Media Mimansa at the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication, Bhopal. She has also been enrolled as a PhD co-guide at Amity University, Jaipur.