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- Name: Karan Deep Singh
- City/Place: Toronto
- Country: Canada
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Bio:
Karan Deep Singh is an Emmy-nominated journalist, filmmaker and photographer. He works as a visual reporter and producer with The New York Times’s award-winning Headway team based in Canada.
Mr. Singh has covered terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, the crackdown in Kashmir, labor shortage in Japan, and Myanmar’s military campaign that drove more than a million Rohingya refugees to neighboring Bangladesh.
He was part of a team that was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting. Mr. Singh was also nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020. In 2022, he won a South Asian Journalists Association Award for a three-part visual and investigative series about India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. He also won a Human Rights Press Award in 2021 for an investigation into an anti-Muslim campaign in India’s northeast.
Before joining The Times in 2019, Mr. Singh spent five years at The Wall Street Journal as a reporter and video journalist reporting from five countries in Asia. He started his career at The Hindustan Times, one of India’s largest English newspapers.
Contact Information
- Email: [email protected]
Media | Markets
- ▶ Instagram: seekaransingh
- ▶ Website: http://karandeepsingh.me
- ▶ Articles: http://karandeepsingh.me
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AWARDS
2022 SOUTH ASIAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AWARD
• Winner - Health Reporting
For a three-part visual and investigative series on India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic: How Science in India Became a 'Political Weapon' Under Modi; 'Everyone Here Is Alone' and One Son's 48-Hour Fight to Save His Parents.
2021 THE HUMAN RIGHTS PRESS AWARD
• Winner - Short Video
“A skillfully scripted and shot piece on an underreported topic, and exceptional in terms of tenacity and on the ground reporting.”
2021 THE SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN
• Gold Medal
“For a detailed look at air pollution in New Delhi. This is a masterclass in multimedia storytelling that perfectly integrates the looping videos with data and there was also perfect attention to detail. You can’t pick out anything that’s slightly subpar.”
2021 THE SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN
• Gold Medal
“For use of infographics. This piece is rare. It includes graphics that can actually move you in an emotional way. This is the ideal for a graphic story, one that has both a personal touch and nuanced charting visualizations.”
2021 THE SIGMA AWARD
• Winner - Best Data Journalism
“A powerful multimedia story that combined sensor journalism, video, graphics, data analysis and strong reporting to bring us a day in the life of two children – one poor and one middle-class. By tracking their activities over the day – from waking to commuting to school to coming home for dinner – and measuring the pollution they were exposed to, minute-by-minute, they brought home in a visceral way the inequalities in access to clean air.”
2020 THE PULITZER PRIZE
• Finalist - Investigative Reporting
“For an exhaustive investigation into Amazon, the world’s largest retailer, that revealed a largely unregulated and highly profitable third-party flea market and the potentially deadly results of it peddling of unsafe and banned products.”
2020 THE EMMY AWARD
• Finalist - Outstanding Investigative Report in a Newsmagazine
“Unsafe Factories in Bangladesh Are Supplying Amazon Sellers”
2020 NATIONAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION
• 1st Place - Online Video Storytelling - Portfolio
“After the Sri Lanka Terror Attacks, Muslims Fear Backlash”
2020 SOUTH ASIAN JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AWARD
• Finalist - Daniel Pearl Award
“Amazon Sells Clothes From Unsafe Factories in Bangladesh”
2019 THE WEBBY AWARD
• Honoree - Video - Technology
“WSJCoin: Yes, We Created Our Own Cryptocurrency”
2018 THE SOCIETY OF PUBLISHERS IN ASIA AWARD
• Honorable Mention - Excellence in Reporting on the Environment
“The World’s Next Environmental Disaster”
2017 THE SOCIETY OF PUBLISHERS IN ASIA AWARD
• Winner - Excellence in Video Reporting
“A 360 degree look inside an IKEA carpet-making factory in India”
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