Nilesh Christopher is a journalist working at the intersection of technology, business and culture. His words have appeared in WIRED, The Atlantic, the BBC, Vice, Rest of World, South China Morning Post, The Economic Times and others.

He is a Harvard Nieman fellow 2025, based in Cambridge, researching on AI-generated content and how U.S. newsrooms combat deepfakes in politics.

Before that, he worked as the South Asia correspondent for Rest of World, a non-profit tech publication focused on covering the impact of technology outside the west. His coverage spanned India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where he reported on AI’s societal impact, e-commerce, iPhone manufacturing, electric vehicles, and the global influence of Chinese tech. Prior to that, he worked as a tech correspondent for The Economic Times, India’s largest business daily.

His honors include a jury special mention at the One World Media’s New Voice Award for his investigative stories exploring AI’s impact on politics, labor, and employment in South Asia. In 2023, the feature he co-wrote on Foxconn’s struggles in producing iPhones in India won the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Best in Business Award and received an honorable mention at the Society of Publishers in Asia 2024 award for excellence in technology reporting. He also won a South Asia Journalists Association award in 2023 for his reporting on how a YouTube channel transformed a remote village in Bangladesh. That same year, he was shortlisted for the True Story Award for his feature on a Sri Lankan fact checking group fighting state-backed misinformation. In 2022, he was part of the team that won the SOPA award for excellence in technology reporting for The Global Gig Workers project.

Nilesh holds a post graduate diploma from the Asia College of Journalism in India, specializing in business and economics journalism. He completed a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

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