Chandran briefed National Press Foundation fellows in June 2024: How to Report on Modern Slavery. 

Kavita Chandran is a journalism trainer and writer based in Singapore. A journalist for more than 25 years, she has worked in newsrooms across the United States and Asia, reporting, writing, and editing stories. She started her career in New Delhi as a business reporter/anchor and moved on to producing shows for CNBC Asia and U.S. She worked as a Breaking News editor with Bloomberg in New York, and then spent 10 years in Reuters’ newsrooms as a Journalism Trainer and Front Page Editor.

Kavita is an accredited trainer with Reuters and the Solutions Journalism Network (SJN). She currently trains journalists across Asia on a plethora of topics, such as climate change, just transition, human trafficking, labour exploitation, racial injustice and social inclusion. She is also a mentor for young journalists, moderator at news events, and a speaker on ‘Solutions Journalism’ as a catalyst for change in the media.

Kavita is a published author of a book, a freelance journalist, and an adjunct faculty for Journalism and Communications at Murdoch University and S.P. Jain Global School of Management.

She is an alumni board member at Columbia Journalism School. She has an M.A. in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communications in New Delhi, and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. An avid traveller, she teaches yoga and hosts wellness retreats when she’s not focusing on journalism. She can be reached at kavita.chandran@gmail.com.