Team :
Shishir Joshi
Journalism veteran with over 20 years experience in Indian print and broadcasting media. Last two
stints as Editorial Director of Mid-Day, India's
highest-selling afternoon paper, and Executive
Editor of TV Today (Aaj Tak - India's highest rated
Hindi news channel and Headlines Today - English
channel). He has also worked for NDTV, cnn.com
and Indian Express. A law graduate, he has also
been a recipient of the Chevening Fellowship.
Aloke Thakore
Independent journalist, consultant, columnist, researcher and
teacher. He has trained journalists at India's major
news organizations, launched a newspaper in the
UAE, taught at universities in India and abroad. A multilingual researcher, Aloke has travelled extensively across the country and has consulted with companies from entertainment to mining. He has a varied background having formally studied subjects ranging from sociolinguistics to global marketing, and social theories to media management. A Media Leadership Fellow of the Poynter Institute for
Media Studies, Salzburg Seminar Fellow, 21st
Century Trust Fellow and a Socrates Seminar
Fellow at the Aspen Institute, he holds a Ph.D.
(Mass Communication) University of Wisconsin-
Madison; AM (International Relations) University of
Chicago; MS (Journalism) University of Kansas;
and BA (Hons.) from Calcutta University.
