Multimedia Journalist

Shubhanjana Das

Shubhanjana Das is a multimedia journalist currently working as a staff reporter at Sahan Journal in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School with a focus on multimedia journalism and international correspondence. At Columbia, Shubhanjana was the recipient of the 2025 Bell Campbell Award for “exceptional leadership and public service in journalism.” She is also a 2026 National Press Foundation Fellow.

At Columbia, she trained extensively in photojournalism and documentary filmmaking, along with foreign correspondence, feature writing, and OSINT reporting. She also recently graduated as a 2026 fellow at the Ida B. Wells Society Data Institute.

She has been an independent journalist and writer for five years, covering environment, religion, culture, gender, and lifestyle in India. Her work is an investigation into the status quo at the intersections of the genres she writes in, and attempts to put a human face to national and international policies.

Her work has been published in Vogue India, VICE, Mongabay, The Indian Express, The Latin Times, PassBlue, Mint, Travel & Leisure, ELLE India, Architectural Digest, The Established, Kashmir Observer, and Lifestyle Asia India, among others. 

An English Honours major from Presidency University, Kolkata, Shubhanjana is a proud mom to her cats, Billa and Kiki. When she is not working, she can be found dancing any of the four forms she practices.