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Moni Basu

Moni Basu (born October 13, 1962) is a veteran Indian American journalist currently on staff at CNN. She is best known for her narrative nonfiction work, including a 2011 e-book, “Chaplain Turner’s War.” Basu has been a journalist since 1983 and has been at CNN since 2009. She has focused her work on war, trauma and human resilience. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and also is a distinguished professor of practice in the low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Career Basu earned an MA in international relations from Florida State University in 1983 and then began reporting for the Florida Flambeau, a small independent newspaper in Tallahassee, Florida. She rose to become editor in chief from 1986 t 1988. She worked briefly for the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, where she produced a quarterly magazine on child abuse prevention. In 1989, she joined the staff of the Tallahassee Democrat, where she edited national and international stories. In 1990, Basu was hired by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she worked as both reporter and editor for 19 years. She began covering Iraq in 2002 and in her speeches, she has talked about how the war and her experience as a frontline journalist changed her life. She has made 11 trips to Iraq, some embedded with U.S. Army and Marines. In 2008, Basu followed an Army chaplain with an infantry battalion that was part of the so-called surge of troops in Iraq. She produced an eight-part newspaper series which won her national accolades including the Joseph B. Galloway award from the Military Reporters and Editors association as well as Reporter of the Year from the Religion News Association. The judges said the series "…had credibility and authenticity because the writer, in the best tradition of unblinking reporting, told her readers what she witnessed firsthand." Basu took a buyout from the Atlanta newspaper in 2009 and began working as a reporter at CNN Digital. At CNN, she has covered major global events including the Iraq war, the Haiti earthquake, the Nepal earthquake, sexual assault in India and the migrant crisis on the Mediterranean. She has also covered politics on the domestic front as well as immigration and the refugee crisis. Basu has won numerous awards and accolades for her work and has spoken about her work at various conferences and events. She also wrote a personal blog called Evil Reporter Chick, the moniker given to her (with affection) by an army sergeant. References http://www.cnn.com/profiles/moni-basu-profile Here are some other links that come up in a Google search: https://online.uga.edu/faculty/moni-basu http://pgwtoolkit.com/sites/?p=5&id=86 https://www.amazon.com/Chaplain-Turners-War-Moni-Basu-ebook/dp/B007XULHX4 https://www.agatepublishing.com/titles/chaplain-turners-war https://news.fsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/fstimes-2007-08-01.pdf https://muckrack.com/mbasucnn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5cY0sCgK9Q https://reportersinfo.com/reporter/moni-basu http://ivoh.org/ochberg-society/ http://likethedew.com/2009/05/22/moni-basu-evil-reporter-chick-is-ok/#.WXjbDdMrLEY http://www.nripulse.com/saris-to-suites%C2%AE-empowered-campaign-unveils-20152016-calendar/ https://longform.org/archive/writers/moni-basu http://niemanreports.org/authors/moni-basu/ Verified FB and twitter accounts: https://www.facebook.com/MBasuCNN/ https://twitter.com/MbasuCNN Debabrata Basuhttps://online.uga.edu/faculty/moni-basuhttps://dartcenter.org/bio/moni-basu