TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship
The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) is delighted to announce Meenakshi Kapoor as the winner of the 2nd TRC Investigative Reporting Fellowship. Meenakshi, a TRC Fellow for the next two months, will be working with the TRC team to produce top-grade investigative work in English. Her work will be published by The Collective in English and Hindi, and made available for co-publication by regional newsrooms.
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The Fellowship
Announced last month, our second round of fellowship was open to candidate(s) with at least two years of reporting experience to tackle an ambitious investigative project they propose. This fellowship is funded by citizens who champion our work.
Selecting just one out of the 35 applications was rather tough. We assessed each application on different parameters, including originality and exclusivity, our mandate, availability of evidence, and feasibility of the story pitched.
We had invited proposals by journalists from across the country to share their story ideas aligning with the following themes:
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Meet Our past Fellows
Meenakshi Kapoor
Meenakshi Kapoor is an environmental researcher and lawyer who writes on environmental laws, policies, and natural resource governance. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Caravan, The Wire, Scroll, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and Mongabay. Meenakshi's research on Indian environmental regulation has been published by the Economic & Political Weekly and the International Centre for Not-for-Profit Law.
In the coming days, Meenakshi will work on a project that falls within our themes of Political Economy and Environment and Climate Change.
In the second round, we received 35 applications. Some of them stood out much more than others. While we can’t host all of the shortlisted stories, just like the last round, we decided to accept one more investigative pitch that intersects crime and our theme of Governance and Accountability. Our Special Grantee Kashif Kakvi will be taking on this investigative project.
Kashif Kakvi
Kashif is a multimedia journalist with a decade of experience across print, TV, and digital media. He reports from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in central India. His investigative work focuses on governance, human rights, corruption, politics, and atrocities against marginalized communities. Kashif has contributed to news outlets such as CNN, Al Jazeera, Article14, The Wire, TOI+, The Caravan, The Quint, and NewsClick.
