Sanshey Biswas is a journalist and media trainer. He has trained journalists in over 15 countries on how to leverage video and social media to increase the reach of their print and broadcast stories. At New Narratives, he’s building audience engagement strategies that translate into growth and revenue for their partner newsrooms. He gets to work with a network of journalists from all over West Africa to experiment with new avenues like subscriptions and memberships. 

Starting his career as a print journalist in 2014 at a weekly newspaper in India, Sanshey quickly gravitated to working on digital platforms. His eagerness to experiment with new platforms and tools helped him quickly grow from being a reporter to being trusted with managing editorial workflows and strategies. 

He is a self-taught multimedia journalist who loves to continue learning from and with his colleagues spread across the globe. His work has appeared in Mongabay, FrontPage Africa, Vice, GroundTruth Project, AJ Contrast, Outlook Magazine, Hindu BusinessLine, Hindustan Times and others.

As a trainer, Sanshey has worked with hundreds of journalists across Africa, Asia and Latin America. These trainings have been supported by a number of organisations including U.S. Agency For Global Media, Creative Commons, Google News Initiative, Internews, KAS Media and Meta Journalism Project. 

He is passionate about covering stories at the intersection of environment and tech in all the mediums — audio, visual and text. He also mentors cohorts of journalists on covering complex topics like renewable energy and just transitions.