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Monimala Basu
D.O.B. 10/13/1962
Kolkata, India
Nationality: American
Education: MA, International Affairs, Florida State University, 1983
BA, Political Science, Florida State University, 1982
Occupations: Journalist and professor
Website: monibasu.com
Monimala (Moni) Basu is an American journalist and professor. She is director of the low-residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault writer-in-residence.[1]
She previously taught at the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Mass Communication in Gainesville.[2]
She began her career in journalism in 1983 and has worked at various media outlets, including CNN and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She also works as a freelance journalist, publishing stories in various magazines, among them The Bitter Southerner and Flamingo.[3]
She was born in Kolkata, India, and left on the steps of an orphanage run by an American missionary. She was adopted at seven days old by an Indian couple. Her father was the renowned statistician, Debabrata Basu. Basu wrote a short biography of her father for the journal Sankhya in 2024.[4]
Her mother, Kalyani (nee Ray), was a homemaker.
She has a master’s degree in International Affairs from Florida State University and served as editor of the Florida Flambeau, then an independent newspaper in Tallahassee.[5]
Basu covered the war in Iraq for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and, later, CNN. [6]
Basu is the author of “Chaplain Turner’s War,”[7] the story of an Army chaplain in Iraq that stemmed from a newspaper series and was published as an e-book in 2012 by Agate Publishing. The story won top honors from the Religion News Association and a mention by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University notable narrative prize, 2008, and the Joseph Galloway Award, the Military Reporters and Editors’ recognition for the best in military reporting, 2009. [8]
In 2010, she covered the earthquake in Haiti for CNN, learning a great deal about trauma reporting. [9] In 2013, she went back to her homeland in the aftermath of a notorious gang rape in Delhi to find Mathura, a woman whose rape case in the 1970s helped shape sexual assault laws in India. [10]
Basu has taught workshops and classes for various organizations including the Poynter Institute and Report for America. She serves on the national advisory board of the Asian American Journalists Association and on the board of South Arts, [11] which works to promote the vitality of the South through the arts.
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- ^ Wagner, Sue (2020-04-17). "Moni Basu Named 2019-20 UF Undergraduate Teacher of the Year". UF College of Journalism and Communications. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ ely, ryan (2015-12-07). "Flamingo Magazine Flamingo Magazine is Florida's Only Statewide Lifestyle Magazine". flamingomag.com. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ Basu, Monimala (2024-11-01). "Debabrata Basu Biography". Sankhya A. 86 (1): 8–12. doi:10.1007/s13171-024-00367-5. ISSN 0976-8378.
- ^ "Florida Flambeau, July 20, 1987 | FSU Digital Repository". repository.lib.fsu.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ Lynne (2024-01-29). "Moni Basu". Lynne Kemen. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ "Chaplain Turner's War". Agate Publishing. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ MRE (2009-10-02). "2009 MRE journalism contest winners announced". Military Reporters and Editors. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ commonmedia (2022-02-10). "Reporting trauma: Moni Basu on following an earthquake survivor". Nieman Storyboard. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ "The girl whose rape changed a country". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 2025-08-04.
- ^ "Staff and Board of Directors | South Arts". www.southarts.org. Retrieved 2025-08-04.