Shamsheer Yousaf
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Shamsheer Yousaf is an independent journalist based in Bangalore, India. He focuses on long-form multimedia and investigative stories about the environment, science, and technology. He has been involved in reporting, writing, shooting and editing photos and videos, and producing multimedia stories.
His investigation into India’s illegal export of shark fins to East Asia won a Society of Environmental Journalists Award for Investigative Reporting. His investigations into the crimes of sand mafia in India became part of a 2023 global report that won a 2024 SOPA Award. A related report by him was nominated for a 2024 True Story Award.
Yousaf's story on people’s resistance to the world’s largest proposed nuclear power plant received a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists, USA, and was shortlisted for the Lorenzo Natali European Prize for Journalism 2015. He also won a 2015 Red Ink Award in the Science and Innovation category and two Special Mentions for the 2019 Red Ink Award in Crime and Science and Innovation categories.
He has received fellowships to participate in the International EcoSummit Congress in Gold Coast (2023), the African Investigative Journalism Conference (2022) in Johannesburg, and the World Conference of Science Journalists (2017) in San Francisco.
He has an undergraduate degree in engineering (computer science) and a postgraduate diploma in TV journalism.
