Somini Sengupta

Last updated
Somini Sengupta
Somini Sengupta-4409.jpg
Born
India
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
OccupationJournalist
Employer The New York Times

Somini Sengupta has been a New York Times reporter for over 20 years. She has written about conflicts, diplomacy, humanitarian crises and as of 2023 is covering climate. In particular, she has reported on the Iraq War and the Syrian civil war. [1] Her flak jacket is in the Times museum. [2] Since February 2022, she has been the lead writer for the Times Climate Forward newsletter, [3] sharing the National Press Club Journalism Award in 2023 for Newsletter Journalism with fellow reporter Manuela Andreoni. [4]

Contents

Born in India, Sengupta was raised in Canada and the United States and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. [5]

Career and awards

In 2003 and 2004, Somini Sengupta covered west and central Africa as the Dakar bureau chief [6] for The New York Times , including the conflict in Darfur. [7] She won the George Polk Award on "foreign reporting for her articles from Congo, Liberia and other war-torn areas of West Africa" in 2003. [8] [9]

In 2005, Sengupta became the first Indian American to serve as the New Delhi bureau chief for The New York Times. [10] [5]

Her climate reporting [11] has been recognized [12] and has led to several journalism awards. The United Nations Correspondents Association recognized her reporting on West African climate refugees with its 2017 "UNCA Global Prize for coverage of Climate Change". [13] In 2021, she received an award for her environmental reporting from the Newswomen's Club of New York. [14] Also in 2021, the Women's Media Center recognized her with one of their "Exceptional Journalism Awards" in her role as an "International Climate Correspondent" for the Times. [15]

Her coverage of lithium mining in Chile was cited as part of a Times team which shared the Overseas Press Club Whitman Bassow Award in 2021. [16]

Works

Sengupta has written one book, The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young, published by W. W. Norton & Company. [17] [18] It was recognized by The Economist as one of their Books of the Year in 2016, and was also reviewed by The Seattle Times [19] and The New Yorker . [20]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">National Magazine Awards</span> American accolade for print and digital publications

The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine-quality journalism published in any medium. They are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) in association with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and are administered by ASME in New York City. The awards have been presented annually since 1966.

Renata Adler is an American author, journalist, and film critic. Adler was a staff writer-reporter for The New Yorker for over thirty years and the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1968 to 1969. She has also published several fiction and non-fiction books, and has been awarded the O. Henry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.

The United Nations Correspondents Association, or UNCA, was founded in New York City in 1948. It has over 250 members today. It presents the annual UNCA Excellence in Journalism Awards. The purpose of the awards "is to recognize and encourage excellence in reporting on the United Nations, its affiliated agencies, organizations and missions."

Nan C. Robertson was an American journalist, author and instructor in journalism. Her awards included a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ryan Lizza</span> American journalist (born 1974)

Ryan Christopher Lizza is an American journalist. His 2017 interview with White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci allegedly resulted in Scaramucci's dismissal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Evan Osnos</span> American journalist and author (born 1976)

Evan Lionel Richard Osnos is an American journalist and author. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, best known for his coverage of politics and foreign affairs, in the United States and China. His 2014 book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the National Book Award for nonfiction.

Sarah Ellison is a reporter for The Washington Post. Previously, she served as a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, where she covered politics, culture, and media. Ellison is a regular commentator on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and other news outlets. She is also a frequent guest on programs such as WNYC, PBS NewsHour, and Democracy Now!

Elizabeth Cohen is an American television news journalist for CNN. She is the channel's senior medical correspondent and appears on various programs.

Sarah Stillman is an American professor, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist focusing on immigration policy, the criminal justice system, and the impacts of climate change on workers. Stillman won a National Magazine Award in 2012 for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan and again in 2019 for her article in The New Yorker on deportation as a death sentence. She won a 2012 George Polk Award for her reporting on the high-risk use of young people as confidential informants in the war on drugs, and a second Polk Award in 2021 for coverage of migrant workers and climate change. She also won the 2012 Hillman Prize. In 2016, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage in The New Yorker about troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S.

Ilene Prusher is an American journalist and novelist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mina Kimes</span> American sports journalist (born 1985)

Mina Mugil Kimes is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. She has written for Fortune, Bloomberg News, and ESPN. She is a senior writer at ESPN and an analyst on NFL Live.

The Front Page Award is an award given by the Newswomen's Club of New York to honor journalistic achievement by women. It has been given annually since 1937.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Newswomen's Club of New York</span> Organization

The Newswomen's Club of New York is a nonprofit organization that focuses on women working in the media in the New York City metropolitan area. Founded in 1922 as the New York Newspaper Woman's Club, it included Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Rogers Reid and Anne O'Hare McCormick among its membership; it changed its name in 1971 to include members working in magazines and broadcast media. The organization presents its Front Page Award annually to honor the most prominent achievements by women in journalism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maggie Haberman</span> American journalist (born 1973)

Maggie Lindsy Haberman is an American journalist, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, and a political analyst for CNN. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. She wrote about Donald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, presidency, and post-presidency for the Times. In 2022, she published the best-selling book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edith Lederer</span> American journalist, born 1943

Edith Lederer, also known as Edie Lederer is an American war journalist.

Ben Taub is an American journalist who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has written for the magazine about a range of subjects related to jihadism, crime, conflict, and human rights, mostly in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference</span> 25th meeting of United Nations Climate Change conference

The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP25, was the 25th United Nations Climate Change conference. It was held in Madrid, Spain, from 2 to 13 December 2019 under the presidency of the Chilean government. The conference incorporated the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 15th meeting of the parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP15), and the second meeting of the parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA2).

Tina Susman is an American journalist and editor. A senior editor at Time from 2019-2022, she was previously the national editor for BuzzFeed News and while at the Los Angeles Times had multiple roles, starting as Baghdad bureau chief and moving on to become a national correspondent based in New York. Prior to that she oversaw and contributed coverage from at least 15 countries in Africa for the Associated Press and Newsday, part of the over-five-fold trend in the increase of women war correspondents from 1970 to 1992. She left Time in 2022 and was a senior editor at the tech news site Protocol.com until its closure in December 2022. While reporting for the Associated Press in 1994, Susman was kidnapped in Somalia and held for 20 days. For this, she was featured in an episode of Oprah and on MSNBC among other outlets, and her case became the subject of debate about whether the Associated Press should have withheld news of the kidnapping.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sky Dylan-Robbins</span> American journalist, documentary producer and media entrepreneur

Sky Dylan-Robbins is an American journalist, documentary producer and media entrepreneur. She is the founder and Executive Director of The Video Consortium, a global nonprofit network that connects journalists and documentary filmmakers around the world. She was a journalist at The New Yorker and a producer at NBC News.

Connie Wang is a Chinese American journalist and writer. She was the former executive director of Refinery29 and has been awarded several Front Page Awards for digital video and fashion. Her multimedia essay published in The New York Times won the Online Commentary, Personal Narrative Online Journalism Award in 2023.

References

  1. ↑ Gross, Terry (15 August 2018). "2018 Revealed Just How Ill-Prepared We Are For Climate Change". National Public Radio. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "New Role for Somini Sengupta". The New York Times Company. 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  3. ↑ "Event recap: Inequity at Boiling Point with Somini Sengupta, NYT foreign correspondent". The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. 15 Feb 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Wall Street Journal, ABC News and PBS NewsHour Win National Press Club Awards". National Press Club. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  5. 1 2 "Somini Sengupta: Liberalization's Children - Stories of Love, Hunger and Destiny in Young India". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  6. ↑ "Somini Sengupta | Existential Threats: Stories from the front lines of climate change in South Asia and beyond". UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  7. ↑ Montagne, Renee (19 Feb 2015). "Kidnappings Inspire Photojournalist Lynsey Addario's Memoir". National Public Radio. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Past Winners | Long Island University". www.liu.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  9. ↑ "Journalists Who Braved Iraq and African Wars Are Among 14 Polk Award Winners (Published 2004)". 2004-02-17. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  10. ↑ Shapiro, Ari (7 March 2016). "In 'The End Of Karma,' Young Indians Work To Overcome Their Past". NPR. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
  11. ↑ "Somini Sengupta on Climate Change". Amanpour & Company. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  12. ↑ McKibben, Bill (2020-08-12). "The World Has Reached Decision Time on the Climate Crisis". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  13. ↑ "2017 UNCA Awards Winners « The United Nations Correspondents Association" . Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  14. ↑ "2021 Front Page Awards". THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  15. ↑ "The Women's Media Center Announces the First WMC Exceptional Journalism Awards Recognizing Outstanding Journalism by Diverse Women Storytellers on December 16 - Women's Media Center". womensmediacenter.com. 2021-12-09. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  16. ↑ "The Whitman Bassow Award 2021". OPC. 2022-04-08. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
  17. ↑ "The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young - Harvard Book Store". www.harvard.com. Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  18. ↑ O'Connor, Joanne (2016-04-24). "'Every month for the next several years, 1 million Indians will turn 18'". The Observer. ISSN   0029-7712 . Retrieved 2023-07-29.
  19. ↑ "'The End of Karma': rewriting destiny for India's youth". The Seattle Times. 2016-03-18. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  20. ↑ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 2016-04-11. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved 2023-07-31.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.