Teaching and mentoring journalism students at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
Department of Media Studies & Journalism • Lecturer
Teaching and mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students as a Lecturer in the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, across core journalism courses and electives spanning digital practice, media history, and environmental communication.
Syllabus Modules
From the origins of the press to today's digital newsrooms, this course explores how journalism shapes and is shaped by society, covering news writing, media ideologies, production processes, source dynamics, audience behavior, ethics, and global news flows.
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The advent of Information and Communication Technologies has reshaped how media organizations produce, distribute, and connect with audiences. This course examines the digital audience: who they are, how they behave, and why monitoring their engagement matters, covering audience theory, social psychology, and how community and consumption patterns converge across platforms and industries.
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A hands-on course in the craft of reporting, covering how journalists find stories, identify and interview sources, cover events, verify facts, use AI tools, and navigate ethical challenges in today's fast-moving news environment.
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This course unpacks how environmental issues are communicated across media, politics, and culture, covering climate justice, advocacy campaigns, global conferences, environmental laws, green marketing, and the evolving role of journalism in the climate crisis.
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From the colonial-era Bengali press to today's social media landscape, this course traces the defining chapters of Bangladesh's media history, covering newspaper growth, radio, television, digital platforms, the blogosphere, and media legislation.
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ULAB • Mentor
A fellowship run by Drik and ULAB to develop long-form and investigative storytellers. After workshops and masterclasses with established journalists, ten student fellows each received funding and a mentor to carry out an investigative project of their own.
Projects Mentored
On 25 August 2024, the Gazi Tyres factory was set on fire with people inside. An official inquiry recorded 182 missing, but the building was never searched and none has been declared dead. This web documentary rebuilds the event from published reporting, marking each claim established, contested or unanswered.
This project gathers twelve Chakma words for disappearance, night raid, checkpoint, curfew, land grab and collective punishment, a vocabulary of repression in the Chittagong Hill Tracts recorded largely outside the official record. The words were built from ordinary Chakma parts to name experiences the language never needed to name.
Dementia reaches beyond memory. Bangladesh had an estimated 1.2 million people living with it in 2022, a figure projected to reach 3.4 million by 2051. Through photo essays, documentary film and audiovisual storytelling, this project looks past diagnosis to the person behind the illness.
How Digital Platforms Shape Everyday Life
Curriculum Integration Forum Summer 2026 | ULABMSJ
14 June 2026
A talk delivered at the ULAB MSJ Curriculum Integration Forum on how digital platforms reshape media, public life, and society, with a focus on implications for the Global South.
Precarious: Living Without Security
Curriculum Integration Forum Fall 2026 | ULABMSJ
The ULABian | Campus Newspaper Apprenticeship Programme
18 June 2026
A workshop on feature reporting arranged by The ULABian, ULAB's campus newspaper apprenticeship programme, equipping student journalists with the skills and frameworks for long-form, narrative-driven journalism.
Youth Connect | British Council
5 December 2025
A British Council supported training programme equipping young people with digital citizenship skills and practical tools to identify, analyse, and resist online misinformation.