Following on from the success of these pecha kucha-style presentations at last year’s festival, ‘How I broke the story’ is back with five new speakers who’ve produced world-class gender journa...
Ankur Paliwal
Ankur Paliwal is an award-winning queer journalist, and founder of queerbeat—a collaborative journalism project deeply and accurately covering LGBTQIA+ persons in India. In the last twelve years of his journalism career, Ankur has written narrative and investigative stories about LGBTQIA+ community, science and inequity from India, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and the United States for several international media organisations including Rest Of World, and the Guardian Long Read. He was also a 2021 fellow at the Entrepreneurial Journalism Creators Program at The City University of New York. He lives in India.
Events IJF 2024
For way too long now, mainstream media in the Global South--particularly in Asia and Africa--has underreported and often misreported the identities, stories and issues of LGBTQIA+ persons. The coverag...
