Sambit Pal
Sambit Pal
Assistant Professor, IIMC Dhenkenal
Sambit Pal - Assistant Professor, IIMC Dhenkenal - A multimedia journalist and media educator Sambit Pal is currently teaching journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal, Odisha. He has experience of working in broadcast and digital media for one and a half decades. He was an assistant editor at ABP Digital, bureau head of Times Now in Kolkata and also worked with various Bengali channels like Star Ananda, Kolkata TV. He started his career with Zee News. An alumnus of Presidency College, Kolkata, a graduate in Political Science, he did his Master's in International Journalism at Cardiff University in the UK under Chevening Scholarship. He is also part of the trainers' network of Google News Initiative in India and regularly holds workshops on fact-checking and fake news verification. He has edited monographs on How to Win Stress and PTSD for Journalist in March 2020 and Media in the time of Covid-19 in June 2020.