Josy is an investigative journalist and author who has been awarded India's top honours in journalism and non-fiction writing.

He won the Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust’s Outstanding Political Reporting of the Year Award in 2011, and the Ram Nath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in 2013 for landmark investigative stories that significantly contributed to the anti-corruption movement of recent years.

Josy also authored A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India, which won the best non-fiction book at the Crossword Book Awards. He attended the British government’s International Leaders Programme, organised by Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2014. Josy has a Master’s in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Edward R Murrow Centre at Fletcher. He has designed and taught investigative journalism courses at Ashoka University, Times School of Journalism, and Jindal School of Journalism and Communication.

Josy founded Confluence Media in July 2019.

Josy Joseph

Basic information

Name
Josy Joseph
Title
Investigative journalist
Expertise
Policy, politics
Country
India
City
New Delhi

Supported projects

Romania, the new mirage for the Asian workers’ « European dream »

  • Corruption
  • Human Rights
  • Migration
  • Trafficking

BUCHAREST - Facing an acute labor shortage and a drastic decrease in population, Romania has allowed tens of thousands of South and East Asian workers, from Vietnam, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, into the country. . The investigation is following the path of Vietnamese and Indians workers mostly -but also from other nationalities- who faced abuses and are victims of lack of assistance from their country of origin and then in Romania.