Raqib Hameed Naik | |
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Born | Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
Occupation | Journalist |
Organisation | Hindutva Watch[1] |
Awards | Aminah Assilmi Award in Media Excellence - 2021.[2] |
Website | raqibnaik |
Raqib Hameed Naik (born 1995) is an Indian journalist.[10] In 2020, he relocated to the United States. He is the founder of Hindutva Watch, a research project that documents hate crimes and hate speeches against religious minorities in India.[3]
Naik is the Pulitzer Center grantee.[11] He has been featured and quoted in various news outlets, including The Washington Post,[12] The Wall Street Journal,[13] The Guardian,[14] The Intercept,[15] American Kahani,[16] BBC,[17] Daily Express UK,[18] Tech Crunch,[19] and others.
Raqib was born into a Kashmiri Muslim family in Doda town, in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir, India. He did his early schooling Sri Ranbir Higher Secondary School in Jammu. He moved to Srinagar to complete his under graduation from Amar Singh College. He then attended Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi and University of Bolton,[20] in the United Kingdom for Masters in Public Administration and International Multimedia Journalism, respectively.[21]
Raqib started his career as a staff reporter with Twocircles.net,[22] where he stayed until 2017. In his early career, he was based in Kashmir. Later he reported from different Indian states. He was guest editor at Beyond Headlines.[23] In 2018, he joined The Globe Post as its Indian correspondent.[24]
Raqib won the Aminah Assilmi Award in Media Excellence in 2021[2] and has been shortlisted for the Thomson Foundation Award.[25]