Academic biography

Saumava Mitra is interested in how media production processes situated in conflict-affected contexts, and media narratives of conflict and crises, influence each other. His current Research Ireland-funded research project focuses on the digital insecurities that journalists from authoritarian regimes around the world who are forced to work from exile, face in their day-to-day work.

His previous research have focused on empirical, ethical and theoretical explorations of the media work and working conditions of marginalised media workers and media narrative producers from conflict-affected contexts in the Global South.

His research has appeared in international journals such as Journalism, Journalism Studies, International Journal of Press/Politics, among others as well as in edited volumes and research handbooks such as Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting, Social Media Images and Conflicts and The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South.  

Mitra currently serves as the Co-Editor of the international journal Media, War & Conflict. He served as the Vice-Chair and Chair of the Visual Communications Studies division, and board member, of the International Communication Association between 2021-2025. 

Prior to joining DCU, Saumava lived, and worked in academia, journalism and in communications, in South Asia, East Africa, North and Central Americas and Europe.