Shishir Joshi is co-founder of Journalism Mentor, India’s first mentorship-based post-graduate programme in journalism. Joshi was previously the Group Editorial Director of the Mid-Day group of publications, which includes Mid-Day (Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune), Sunday Mid-Day, Gujarati Mid-Day and Inquilab.

Prior to Mid-Day, Joshi was with the TV Today group, where he was executive editor. He has also been editorial consultant for the Sahara group, helping set up TV channels across India as well as recruiting and training professionals for them. Prior to that he was with NDTV as its sole business news correspondent based out of Mumbai. He has worked with CNN.com, written for Reuters and AFP and has contributed to UK based Channel 4 News and has been the South Asia Representative of Peter Arnett’s Broadcast News Network (BNN TV).

A law graduate, he is a Chevening Scholar. He is also the founder of the JM Foundation for Excellence in Journalism (www.journalism.org.in), which is a not for profit body, aimed at Journalism Research, Archiving and Education. He is a Corporate Media Trainer on Communication Strategy and Crisis Communication.