About the authors
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Dr Chindu Sreedharan is Principal Academic in Journalism at Bournemouth University. He is a former journalist and has a particular interest in journalistic storytelling as a means to improve human rights situations and empower marginalised groups. His research focuses on ‘abnormal journalisms’, reportage that extends the boundaries of conventional newswork—from crisis and post-disaster newsgathering, to journalism on social media, as well as emerging forms of nonfictional narratives. He is Co-Principal Investigator for Media Action Against Rape (MAAR). He tweets @chindu and can be emailed at csreedharan@bournemouth.ac.uk
Dr Einar Thorsen is Associate Professor of Journalism and Communication, and Deputy Dean of Research and Professional Practice for the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. His research concerns online journalism, citizens’ voices, and news reporting of crisis and political change—linked with protecting freedom of speech, human rights, and civil liberties—especially for journalists, vulnerable people, marginalised groups, and in contexts or countries where such liberties are being curtailed. He tweets @einarthorsen and can be emailed at ethorsen@bournemouth.ac.uk
Nirjana Sharma is the head of Communication and Information Unit at UNESCO Office in Kathmandu since 2016. She brings to UNESCO her first-hand experience of journalism during many difficult times faced by Nepali media followed by the instability during political crisis, as well as the natural disasters, to design concrete programmes for responding to the need of media development in Nepal. She was a reporter for The Kathmandu Post from 2010 to 2012 and a correspondent at Republica from 2012 to the beginning of 2016. Both the English daily newspapers are published from Kathmandu. She tweets @NirjanaSharma and can be emailed at ni.sharma@unesco.org
Dr Sreedharan and Dr Thorsen currently co-direct Media Action Against Rape (MAAR), a GCRF-funded research and capacity building project led by Bournemouth University and UNESCO in New Delhi.