Amitoj Singh

Graduate Student, School of Journalism, Columbia University

Amitoj Singh is currently an M.A Candidate in the Political Concentration at the Columbia School of Journalism. Amitoj has recently returned from Iraq where he was working towards reporting a multimedia project highlighting the colossal social devastation that ISIS has caused the Yazidi women. In particular, he intends to find the words to relate the pain, suffering, and stigma of Yazidi women who had to leave their children, born of ISIS fathers, behind because their community wouldn’t accept them.

Previously, Amitoj has been News Editor and Principal Anchor of India’s NDTV (New Delhi Television), a pioneer in India’s news television and digital journalism, with a large English-language viewership.

Most recently, he won the Dag Hammarskjöld Journalism fellowship to the United Nations which allowed him to work as a journalist for 3 months at the UN headquarters in New York in 2018.

Amitoj has reported and presented news surrounding the 2019 General Elections in India, the 2018 Midterm Elections in the USA, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland 2018, the Presidential Election in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the focus of Facebook and Whatsapp in fighting fake news in San Francisco, and the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia.

While at NDTV for more than 12 years, he anchored NDTV’s Flagship and Primetime shows ‘Jai Jawan’, Trending @10PM, Good Morning India, Livestream, India vs Fake News, Versus, Youthquake, Newsbreak and Turning Point, amongst numerous breaking news developments.

Working Group Affiliation

Menstrual Health and Gender Justice, Media Fellow (2020)