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222. Journalism Unfiltered (with Josy Joseph)
Speaking in an Open Forum
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Josy Joseph is an award winning journalist based in New Delhi and was the National Security Editor of The Hindu newspaper until 2018.
Josy’s stories have fostered greater public debate and have contributed to significant policy and systemic changes. His reporting has resulted in several high-profile officials being forced out of office, triggering the arrest of many others as well as federal criminal and military investigations.
Particularly high-profile investigations have included, for example, the Mumbai Adarsh Housing scam and the many misdeeds in the run-up to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, both of which contributed significantly to the anti-corruption movement of recent times.
The Prem Bhatia Trust elected him India’s best political reporter of 2010 “for his scoops and revelations, which include a list of scams that have become familiar names in the political lexicon.” He shared the award with Jyotirmoy Dey, a Mumbai crime reporter who had been shot dead a few weeks earlier.
In July 2013, the Ramnath Goenka Foundation run by the Indian Express newspaper group awarded him the “Journalist of the Year” in print media.
In this episode of BIC Talks, Josy addresses a wide range of questions in a public forum that was a part of the Bangalore Literature Festival 2021.
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Josy Joseph
Josy Joseph is an investigative journalist based in New Delhi, author of the critically acclaimed non-fiction book ‘A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India,’ and a Global Fellow at the Edward R. Murrow Center for a Digital World at Tufts University.
Josy is now engaged in starting up a multi-lingual media entity – Confluence Media, a platform-agnostic investigative journalism organization. He is an adjunt faculty at O. P. Jindal Global University..
Until August 2018, he was the National Security Editor of The Hindu newspaper. He wrote columns and editorials for the newspaper besides overseeing coverage of security issues and investigative stories. He has been Editor Special Projects for the Times of India, an Associate Editor with the DNA newspaper, and has also worked with Rediff.com, the Asian Age, Delhi Mid Day, and the Blitz.
Josy is the only Indian writer-journalist to have been honoured with prestigious awards for both his journalism as well as non-fiction writing.
Josy holds a Masters in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and was a prominent face of its international campaign in 2011-2012. He also has a post-graduate diploma in journalism. Josy graduated from the University of Kerala with an undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics. He completed his schooling from a Sainik School.
Joseph was a fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore and is an alumnus of the Colombo-based Regional Centre for Strategic Studies.
