Priti Salian

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About Priti Salian

I’m an independent journalist based in Bengaluru, India, and the author of Reframing Disability, a newsletter simplifying disability inclusion for content creators. I have reported from India, Germany, and Uganda on human rights, social justice, development, culture, and more specifically covered issues of disability, gender, global health, education, and ageing. My work has appeared in publications like The Guardian, BBC, The BMJ, The Lancet, Devex, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and many more. In 2019, as Robert Bosch Foundation’s Media Ambassador, I travelled across Germany for three months and reported on ageing, migration, disability and culture. In 2022, I was a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, where I worked on disability inclusion in India's news and newsrooms. My paper “A 9-step plan for “curb-cutting” disability access in India's news and newsrooms” was a result of the studyI’m an accredited media consultant and trainer of Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Solutions Journalism. In 2023, I was awarded the European Journalism Centre’s Global Health Security Grant. Since early 2023, I have been working for the Disability Justice Project where I have trained disability rights activists and journalists in rights-based journalism. I also run a group of journalists interested in disability-inclusive reporting.I'm open to training, research and journalism assignments. Please get in touch at pritisalian@gmail.com.