Pamposh Raina

Pamposh Raina is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has written on policy, politics, gender, and children’s rights for international publications, including Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, and Vox. She was a reporter with The New York Times as well as the deputy editor for India Ink, which was NYT’s first-ever county-specific blog. She has also been a special correspondent, South Asia, for AFP.

As a trainer she has held workshops for journalists in South Asia and Southeast Asia on addressing climate crisis misinformation. She has organized and hosted panels on mental health and well-being for journalists in India through the Meta Journalism Project. As a media consultant she led a project that documented the impact of climate change on small farming communities in rural India. She is part of the Google News Initiative’s network of trainers in India. She conducts workshops on fact-checking and verification. During the 2019 Indian parliamentary election, she led a research project commissioned by WhatsApp to analyse the misinformation trends on the messaging app. She also initiated a student-led project at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center that focused on studying disinformation on social media in the run-up to the 2019 Indian election.

She has a master’s degree in Sociology from The Delhi School of Economics. She was awarded a fellowship to pursue graduate studies in Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. She has received a UNFPA sponsored journalism award for gender reporting in India.