Ahsan Afthar

Ahsan Afthar has been working in the media industry for the past four years. He has worked as a full-time journalist in the national newspaper 'Vidivelli' and is currently writing as a freelance journalist for the same newspaper. Specializing in reporting on SRHR, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Tamil language section of the website bakamoono.lk. He is also the Content Lead of Nadi, a digital media outlet. He completed communication and media studies at the University of Colombo and is an Undergraduate at the Open University of Sri Lanka. As a United Creatives Scholar of UNDP Sri Lanka, he has worked with UNDP on investigative reporting and social media campaigns on violence against women and gender-based violence. Apart from this, he also dabbles in investigative reporting along with reporting on Mobile Journalism, Gender reporting, Fake news and Hate speech.

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