Dr Manisha Ganguly, an ex-CAMRI Doctoral Researcher at the University of Westminster, has been awarded a Women of the Future Award, winning the Award’s Media category.
The Women of the Future Awards recognise outstanding female talent in the UK, across a range of sectors, from Arts & Culture, Business, to Sport. Now in their 17th year, they celebrate the most innovative and determined stars of today and tomorrow.
This is not the only success Ganguly has enjoyed recently, having recently landed a prestigious Investigative Correspondent role at The Guardian.
In 2021, she was named in the Forbes Magazine 30 under 30 list of people to look out for who are working in the media in Europe.
She specialises in using open-source techniques to expose human rights abuses, especially war crimes. Investigations she has produced have uncovered war crimes in Syria, Libya, and most recently Ukraine.
Her research at Westminster focussed on the future of Investigative Journalism and the role automation, open-source and artificial intelligence plays in it.
Ganguly said: "I am honoured to receive the Women of the Future Award for my journalism and advocacy work and would like to thank the judges. Working at the intersection of two male dominated professions, investigative journalism and filmmaking, means I am often the only woman of colour in the room, and there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to tackle microaggressions in both industries.
"I am looking forward to starting my new job at The Guardian and have a few guest lectures scheduled at universities in the UK and abroad."
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