Akhil Ranjan

Learning

Conferences, seminars & Other trainings

June 2026

Climate journalism: Investigative Reporting for Every Beat

Course

Successfully completed the four-week online course by Knight Center.

November 2025

GIJC 2025 — Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Attendee
Jun–Dec 2025

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Editing Program

ICFJ Fellow · ASU

I was one of ten investigative reporters and editors selected from around the world for the prestigious ICFJ fellowship, where I gained practical newsroom leadership skills and learned best practices to strengthen and guide investigative reporting.

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May 2024

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Conference 2024 — Anaheim, California

Panelist

How can investigative journalists hold political actors accountable in an era of rising autocracy, political violence, AI-driven disinformation, and other anti-democratic threats in this seismic global elections period? In this round-up session, journalists will share the key tools, strategies, and techniques that leading watchdog journalists around the world now recommend, from at-risk elections to "hybrid" democracies and autocratic states holding sham elections.

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April–June 2024

ICFJ Disarming Disinformation Project (2024)

Grantee

I was one of eight investigative journalists selected from around the world for ICFJ's prestigious 2024 Disarming Disinformation project, focused on reporting on organised abuse of information and information technologies aimed at undermining elections and democratic processes. As part of the project, I investigated coordinated digital disinformation campaigns during India's 2024 general elections and led the production of an in-depth video documentary exposing a network of YouTubers amplifying Hindu nationalist narratives through staged "vox pop"–style videos.

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December 2019

Asia–Europe Foundation (ASEM) Journalists' Seminar — Madrid

Speaker

Represented India as the sole invited journalist from the country and shared my insights on the dangers of misinformation in a highly polarised society amid fading public trust in legacy media with selected groups of young journalists from across Asia and Europe.

September 2018–Present

Google News Initiative (GNI)

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