1 week Ago
Mitali Mukherjee, who has been acting director since Rasmus Nielsen stepped down last October, was selected in an open process that concluded in late March and will take up her new post immediately. The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is dedicated to exploring the future of journalism worldwide through debate, engagement, and research. Its activities include a flagship journalist fellowship programme, leadership programmes, and research programmes to provide timely, evidence-based analysis of issues facing journalism and news media around the world.
Ms Mukherjee has led its journalist programmes since September 2022 and represented the institute in conferences and events around the world. Under her leadership, the institute has added new sponsors to its journalist fellowship programme and secured funding for the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, an initiative that supports hundreds of journalists to improve the quality, understanding, and impact of climate coverage around the world. Ms Mukherjee said: "I am honoured to take on the role of director at the Reuters Institute and to be leading an exceptional team of colleagues.
"Our core mission is to explore the future of journalism worldwide through debate, engagement, and research, and I am looking forward to working with the Department of Politics and International Relations, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, and industry partners to build on our achievements and mission. "In a time of unpredictability and shift across the world, we are, and will remain, international in our reach and impact." Ms Mukherjee is a political economy journalist with more than two decades of experience in TV, print, and digital journalism.
In 2020, she was nominated for the Red Ink Awards in India for two of her business stories. Alan Rusbridger, chair of the Reuters Institute’s steering committee, said: "I am thrilled that Mitali will succeed Rasmus Nielsen as director. "She has been outstanding in her two terms as acting director and she has a clear and compelling vision for the next stage.
"The Reuters Institute was always intended to be a bridge between academic research into the future of journalism and the profession itself. "Her directorship comes at a time of both great danger and extraordinary transformation. "The institute will have a unique role to play in this transformation and couldn’t be in better hands.
" Mr Nielsen was the institute’s director from 2018 to 2024. Under his leadership, the institute produced award-winning, widely cited, and increasingly global academic research, and launched new work focused on climate change, diversity in news leadership, and artificial intelligence..
