New Delhi: Journalist Mitali Mukherjee has been named the new director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.Mukherjee has a two-decade-long career as a political economy journalist in India, spanning TV, print and digital journalism. She was consulting business editor at The Wire and hosted a popular YouTube show before leaving for the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where the Reuters Institute is based.Mukherjee had been acting director of the institute since October 2024 and was selected in an open process that concluded late March, the institute has said in a note. She will succeed Rasmus Nielsen as director.Mukherjee anchors the Reuters Institute’s journalist programmes, among other roles. The institute’s press note says that under her leadership, it has added new sponsors to the fellowship programme and secured funding for the Oxford Climate Journalism Network.She was a Chevening fellow for the South Asia Journalism Fellowship 2020, a Raisina Asian Forum for Global Governance Young Fellow 2019 and a 2017 fellow of the Australia India Youth Dialogue. In 2020, she was nominated for the Red Ink Awards in India for two of her business stories.“In a time of unpredictability and shift across the world, we are, and will remain, international in our reach and impact,” Mukherjee was quoted in the note as having said.
