Vinod Jose Biography 
Vinod Kizhakkeparambil Joseph, shortly called Vinod Jose or Vinod K. Jose is a journalist, editor, and magazine founder from Kerala. In 2009, he re-launched Delhi Press’ 70-year-old title The Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988 and currently serves as its executive editor. This magazine is India’s only narrative journalism magazine and published from New Delhi in language English. He was the founding editor of the Malayalam-language publication Free Press.
Jose started his journalist career as a city reporter of the Indian Express in New Delhi in 2001. He has worked as a foreign correspondent in South Asia for the American public radio network, Pacifica Radio, from 2002 to 2007. During this time, he founded Malayalam investigative magazine Free Press, where he served as editor. He was only 23 then and thus became one of the youngest editors-in-chief of any current affairs registered magazine in India. In 2009, he was hired by Delhi Press to re-launch ‘The Caravan’.
Vinod graduated with from Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University, New York in the year 2008. He was a Bollinger Presidential Fellow. He was awarded his PhD in Sociology in 2012 from Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi. In the field of journalism, he gained attention for the first time when he reported about those accused and the convicted in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. His story was not published on the same day because he had found so many contradictions. Jose conducted an exclusive interview with Mulakat Afzal Guru for Radio Pacifica in 2006. Jose filed a "Right to Information" application to make public, the private holdings of Kalanithi Maran, for which he received support from Central Information Commission.
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Updated: February 12, 2014
