Core Faculty

The ACJ’s programme is conducted by a top-flight fulltime faculty drawn from varied backgrounds in collaboration with distinguished adjuncts and guests from journalism, other professional fields, and the academic world.

Nalini Rajan, Dean of Studies
Key Issues; Deprivation; Identity Politics; Democratic Practices and Institutions

Nishat Ahmed
Television Production, Field and Studio; News and Current Affairs; Documentary Features

K.N.Arun
News Reporting, Writing and editing for the New Media

Ajit Bhaskaran
Television news production; studio production, show formats, packaging; media convergence

Mohan Ramamoorthy, Associate Dean
Reporting and news writing for Web; journalism skills for a digital-centric newsroom and for leveraging social media.

Anjana Krishnan
Research Associate

Shalini Shah
Feature writing, editing and creative non-fiction

Madan Mohan
Editing, creative writing, page layout and design, and the best practices that go into new-age journalism.

Anisha Sheth
Reporting, writing and editing for Print and New Media

Jehan Nizar
Feature Writing and Editing, Creative Non-fiction and Storytelling Techniques for Long-form Journalism

Askar Ali Baig
Trainer, Broadcast

Dilip Kumar N C
Trainer-Web Techniques and
Web Administrator

Sathish S.G
Associate Trainer, Broadcast