Vinod K. Jose, or Vinod Kizhakkeparambil Joseph, is an award winning journalist from India

India

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. He is currently the Deputy Editor of The Caravan (magazine) published from New Delhi. In 2009, Jose was hired by Delhi Press

Delhi Press

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 to re-launch the company's 70-year old title The Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988. In January 2010, The Caravan was successfully re-launched as India's first longform narrative journal. Jose started as a city reporter with The Indian Express in New Delhi

New Delhi

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 in 2001. He has worked as a foreign correspondent

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 in South Asia for the American public radio network, Pacifica Radio

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 from 2002 to 2007. In 2007 he attended the MA program at Columbia Journalism School, New York

New York

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, where he was a Bollinger

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 Presidential Fellow. He won the 2008 Foreign Press Association award from Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein

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, awarded annually for young journalists in the United States

United States

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 for their outstanding academic and professional achievement. Jose was also the founding editor of Free Press (magazine), a longform investigative magazine published in Malayalam language.

External links

[* http://vinodkjose.com]

• http://www.countercurrents.org/nuiman-200705.htm
• http://www.humanrightskerala.com/index.php?Itemid=19&id=1804&option=com_content&task=view