In 2009, Jose was hired by Delhi Press to re-launch the company's 70-year-old title The Caravan, which was discontinued in 1988.
18 Facts About Vinod Jose
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Vinod Jose was the executive editor of The Caravan from 2009 to 2023, which calls itself "India's only narrative journalism magazine" and is published in the English-language in New Delhi.
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Vinod Jose has won several national and international awards for his work.
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Since he left The Caravan, Vinod Jose has been working on an investigative book on how political and economic power works in India.
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Vinod Jose is the founder and director of the Wayanad Literature Festival, India's first and the largest rurally-held literature festival.
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Vinod Jose Graduated with a degree in Communications from Manipal University in 2001.
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Vinod Jose was awarded his PhD in Sociology in 2012 from Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, India.
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Vinod K Jose started as a city reporter with the Indian Express in New Delhi in 2001.
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Vinod Jose worked as a foreign correspondent in South Asia for the American public radio network, Pacifica Radio, from 2002 to 2007.
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Vinod Jose was the founding editor of Free Press, a long-form investigative magazine published between 2003 and 2006 in the Malayalam language.
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At 23, Vinod Jose became one of the youngest editors-in-chief of any current affairs registered magazine in India when he started Free Press.
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In 2009, Vinod Jose was hired by Delhi Press to re-launch the company's 70-year-old title The Caravan, which had been discontinued in 1988.
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Vinod K Jose first received attention for his reporting about those accused and those convicted in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack.
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In 2005, Vinod Jose, who was at the time editing the Free Press, was questioned by the Crime Branch in New Delhi about articles that he had written about SAR Geelani, who had been accused and acquitted in the 2001 Indian Parliament attack.
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In 2006, Radio Pacifica correspondent Vinod Jose conducted an exclusive interview with Mulakat Afzal Guru while the convict awaited his execution inside the Tihar Jail.
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Vinod Jose has merely rehashed what I told Caravan last year.
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Vinod Jose was presented with an award for excellence in reporting by the Asia Society in 2013.
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Two articles from Vinod Jose were listed in the citation: "The Emperor Uncrowned: The Rise of Narendra Modi," which about how Modi reformed his reputation from the days of 2002 Gujarat violence into a prominent investment booster for Gujarat, India, and "On the Success of Ethics," which is about the changing relationship between public relations and traditional journalism and the possible role of ethics.