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Harvard’s Nieman Foundation selects Indian journalist as fellow
Sagar is a senior staff writer for The Caravan in India and is selected to join Harvard for two semesters starting this fall.
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Senior Staff Writer at The Caravan, Sagar / Sagar via LinkedIn
Indian journalist Sagar, who writes for The Caravan, has been selected by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard to be a part of the 89th cohort of Nieman Fellows.
The Foundation selected 22 journalists from around the world as members of the Class of 2027. The cohort features reporters, editors, investigative journalists, visual journalists and many others who collectively use text, audio, photography, video, and illustration to tell their stories.
Sagar is a senior staff writer for The Caravan in India. He has been selected to join the other Nieman fellows for two semesters of study at Harvard University beginning this fall.
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A Bihar native, Sagar holds a Bachelor's Degree from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Before joining The Caravan Magazine almost a decade ago, Sagar worked as a Crime Reporter at the Odisha Post. He has also worked in other prominent Indian media houses including Dainik Jagran and the New Indian Express.
The Fellowship highlighted the unique perspective brought by Sagar and noted that he will “examine the impact of the Indian media’s systemic exclusion of perspectives of people from marginalized castes and the measures that can improve coverage of those communities.”
Through the fellowship, Sagar will be researching topics that will help him better understand how press restrictions and new technologies such as generative AI are changing the nature of reporting and how to better cover underserved communities while rebuilding trust in journalism.
The Class of 2027 will also study how to bring fresh perspectives on the impact of climate change.
Announcing the class, Nieman Interim Curator Henry Chu said, “These accomplished new fellows have shown through their work why journalism still matters — how it illuminates the forces shaping our lives, uncovers hidden stories, and holds the powerful to account.”
Chu continued, “The year they’ll spend at Harvard will strengthen them as leaders in the field at a time when press freedom has become increasingly precarious worldwide.”
Over the years, over 1,800 journalists from 100 countries have been selected by the Nieman Foundation for fellowships at Harvard since its founding in 1938.
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