Vishal Arora

{{Short description|Indian journalist}}

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Vishal Arora is a journalist, writer, photojournalist, and videographer based in New Delhi, India.{{Cite web |last=Calendar |first=The Events |title=Past Events – Tibet Policy Institute |date=10 June 2019 |url=https://tibetpolicy.net/events/category/upcoming-events/workshop/list/?tribe_event_display=past&tribe_paged=1 |access-date=2022-06-22 |language=en-US}} {{Cite web |title=Vishal Arora's Profile {{!}} Newsreel Asia Journalist {{!}} Muck Rack |url=https://muckrack.com/vishal-arora |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=muckrack.com |language=en}}

He is the publisher and editor of Newsreel Asia, an OTT news media.{{Cite web |title=Vishal Arora and , listing of Vishal Arora |url=https://www.newsreel.asia/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=Newsreel Asia |language=en}} He was previously the editor of StoriesAsia, a collective of journalists from South and Southeast Asia.{{Citation |title=E20 Vishal Arora: The rise of Hindu nationalism | date=17 November 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMppyydwDdM |language=en |access-date=2023-02-01}}{{Cite web |title=Why our 12 Principles are so urgently needed – C J A |date=11 October 2020 |url=http://commonwealthjournalists.org/2020/10/11/why-our-12-principles-are-so-urgently-needed-2/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |language=en-GB}} He resigned from StoriesAsia in January 2021. He used to be the Features Editor{{Cite web |title=Vishal Arora |url=https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/author/vishal-arora-2/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=World Politics Review |date=24 December 2015 |language=en-US}} of The Caravan, a fortnightly journal of politics and culture published from Delhi, and an editor at Indo-Asian News Service.{{Cite web |date=2007-02-16 |title=Indian diaspora respected for ethics, success: Tory MP |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/indian-diaspora-respected-for-ethics-success-tory-mp/story-iARK93Uk8Ovb8CaELmtkFJ.html |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}} Arora writes on politics, religion, culture, human rights and foreign affairs in south and south east Asia for national and foreign media. Arora particularly coves Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.{{Cite web |title=Vishal Arora's Profile {{!}} Newsreel Asia Journalist {{!}} Muck Rack |url=https://muckrack.com/vishal-arora |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=muckrack.com |language=en}}

Arora teaches journalism and storytelling, as a guest faculty, at Indian Institute of Mass Communication.{{Cite web |title=Faculty Details:Indian Institute of Mass Communication |url=http://iimc.gov.in/FacultyFullDetail.aspx?FacultyId=43 |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=iimc.gov.in}} Arora is on the advisory board of the John McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute in New York.{{Cite web |last1=February 24 |last2=Wilkinson |first2=2015 {{!}} Alissa |date=2015-02-24 |title=John McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute to Join with The Media Project |url=https://www.tkc.edu/stories/john-mccandlish-phillips-journalism-institute-to-join-with-the-media-project/ |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=The King's College |language=en-US}}

Arora has reported on hundreds of incidents of communal violence in India, mainly against the Christian minority. Arora was invited as a witness at a briefing titled, "the Threat Religious Extremism Poses to Democracy and Security in India: Focus on Orissa", organised by the United States Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom on 10 December 2008 in Washington DC.{{Cite web |title=Vishal Arora – The Diplomat |url=https://thediplomat.com/authors/vishal-arora/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=thediplomat.com}}

Arora has also presented papers on the mixing of religion and politics in seminars organised by the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life in Washington DC.{{Cite journal |last=Mofidi |first=Sabah |date=2014-03-01 |title=The Electoral Function of Religion in Contemporary India |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3482045 |language=en |location=Rochester, NY|doi=10.2139/ssrn.3482045 |ssrn=3482045 }} Arora was also invited by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in the U.K. for a conference on ‘Religion, Media and the Commonwealth’{{Cite web |date=2020-03-18 |title=Religion, Media and the Commonwealth |url=https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/commonwealth/religion-media-and-the-commonwealth/ |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=The Round Table |language=en-GB}} in March 2020 to speak about the 2020 communal violence in Delhi. Arora has also taught journalism in Uganda.{{Cite web |title=Senior journalists urged to mentor juniors |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/articledetails/1430973 |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=New Vision |language=en}}

Arora, along with his colleague Harshita Rathore, was finalist in the 2021 EPPY Awards for The Dinner Table docuseries published by ReligionUnplugged and Newsreel Asia, in two categories: Best Collaborative Investigative, and Best Feature Video.{{Cite web |title=2021 EPPY Award winners: Honoring the best in digital media |url=https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/2021-eppy-award-winners,210633 |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Editor and Publisher |date=13 December 2021 |language=en}}