About OnlineJournalism.in
Indian Online Journalism (IOJ) was founded by Subhash Rai as a newsgroup on August 24, 2000 at Yahoo Groups — a community to discuss the growth of online journalism in India. IOJ was arguably the first newsgroup on the subject, well before news publications had started investing seriously in digital journalism.
The site has been relaunched with a renewed focus on the state of digital journalism in general, and from the perspective of working journalists. This is a crucial moment when digital journalism and its impact on citizenship and democracy is being debated worldwide. We believe there is a strong case for a platform that functions as a resource on these issues — providing a non-partisan, practitioner-oriented look at the challenges facing journalism in an increasingly networked world.
IOJ also provides consulting services, tailoring solutions for newsrooms based on their specific challenges. IOJ is published by the Centre for Initiatives in Journalism (CIJ), a registered non-profit trust.
The team
Subhash Rai, Chairman and Managing Trustee of CIJ and founder of IOJ, is a senior digital editor with over 20 years in online journalism. He has held strategic and leadership roles at some of India’s leading news publications, including The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Hindustan Times, and the Economic and Political Weekly.
A. Narayana was a journalist for more than a decade before completing his PhD in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. He specialises in governance and public policy and teaches at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
N.A. Mahamed Ismail is a digital journalist currently working with a Kannada television channel. He was Digital Editor of Prajavani Online, Deccan Herald Group, for over a decade, and brings CIJ deep experience in working with Indian languages online.
To contribute to IOJ, write to us at editor at onlinejournalism.in