Archana Kumari
Archana Kumari
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Media Studies
School of Social Sciences
Residence
9419026595
Email
archanakumari[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, archanaiimc[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD, MPhil, MMC

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Media Economy, Media Sociology, Development Communication, Media and Information Literacy

Experience

31st March, 2014 – 5th April 2023: Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication and New Media, Central University of Jammu, Jammu, J & K, India.

1st August, 2012 – 29th March, 2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Convergent Journalism, Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J & K, India.

18th July 2011 – 20th July 2012: Assistant Professor (Contract), Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Central University of Bihar, Patna, India.

22nd August, 2006 – 17th July 2010: Academic Associate (Contract), Department of English Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, India.

Awards & Honours

  • Jury’s Sustainability Ambassador Award 2026 by Yuva for Sustainability.

  • Ai Excellence Award in Healthcare Traning by ADiRA – AI for Digital Readiness and Advancement, an initiative of DataLEADS on 28th January 2026.

  • Excellence in Editorial Leadership Award by Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) in December 2025.

  • Iconic Woman Creating for Better World for All Award by Women Economic Forum in 2019.

International Collaboration/Consultancy
  • Principal Lead, India for an international comparative study on newsrooms and beats.

  • Principal Lead, South Asia for the Journalism Education and Trauma Research Group (JETREG) project. https://jetreg.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/ 

  • Participated in Global Media Monitoring Project, 2020 (GMMP, 2020). https://whomakesthenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/India-GMMP-Report.pdf (page no. 50)

  • Country Vice-Director for India of The Asian Congress for Media and Communication. 

  • Co-Project Director, UNESCO’s project on “Accelerating Women Entrepreneurship in Rural India: Towards Digital Empowerment for Self-Reliance and Gender Equality” completed on 20th October 2023.

  • Co-Project Director of Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR)’s project on “Digital Inclusion and Sociocultural Transformation among the Didayi Tribe of Odisha: An Empirical Assessment of ICT Interventions” to be completed in 2028.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Kumari, A. (2025). Battling Misinformation, Disinformation and Fake News: Challenges and Countermeasures. In Dahiya, Surbhi and Joshi, Aashish (Ed.), Editing Essentials from Newsrooms to Newsfeeds. Atlantic, New Delhi.

  2. Kumari, A. et al (2023). Workplace Happiness, Journalism and COVID-19 in South Asia. In Bélair-Gagnon, Valérie; Holton, Avery E.; Deuze, Mark and Mellado, Claudia (Ed.), Happiness in Journalism. Routledge, London.

  3. Kumari, A. (2023). Adolescents and social media: Attraction, Addiction, Image Creation and Necessity. In Raman, Usha and Kasturi, Sumana (Ed.), Childscape, Mediascape Children and Media in India (209 – 232). Orient Blackswan Private Limited, Hyderabad.

  4. Kumari, A. (2023). The Complexity of Ownership of Media in India and Emerging Trends. In Rabindranath et al (Ed.), The Role of Media in Contemporary Scenario (64 – 91). Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi.

  5. Kumari, A. (2021). Pandemic-A raison d'etre for 'Infodemic' and Media Literacy- 'solus solutio'. In Tripathi, Durgesh (Ed.), Rethinking Media and Socio-Cultural Change: India and The Globe in the Times of Pandemic (238-256). HP Hamilton Ltd., United Kingdom

  6. Kumari, A. & Sugandha (2020). Representation of Voices of Women in Media: A Jammu Centric Study. In Katoch, Archana (Ed.), Women Empowerment: Issues and Challenges (pp.46-77). Anamika Publishers. New Delhi.

  7. Kumari, A. (2016). Political Delineation of News Media in Kashmir Valley and its Consequences. In Bhattacharya, Mausumi (Ed.), Crony Journalism: An Overview (pp. 72-89). Santiniketan, India: Santiniketan Press.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  1. Zvi Reich, Lada Trifonova Price, Mark Coddington, Claudia Mellado, Milda Malling, Lenka Waschková Císařová, Avshalom Ginosar, Sarah Van Leuven, Archana Kumari, Dominique Marchetti, Florian Wintterlin, Sergio Splendore, Rubén Arnoldo González, Pantelis Vatikiotis, Antoine Faure & Leticia Hernández (28 Feb 2026): Comparing News Beat Structures across 13 Countries: From Geographic to Topical and Sub-Specialised Division of Labour, Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2026.263150

  2. Kumari, A. et al. (2025). Concurrently fading away and strengthening: A cross-country comparison of foreign and local news beats, Journalism. Vol. 0 (0), pp 1–24. DOI: 10.1177/14648849251372799.

  3. Shilpa, K., Kumari, A., Das, M.M., Sharma, T., Biswal, S.K. (2023). Exploring Trauma Literacy Quotient Among Indian Journalists and a Way Forward in Post-Pandemic Era: A Case Study of India, Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 78(2), pp. 267–288

  4. Kumari, A. (2022). The Routledge companion to journalism ethics, Ethical Space, The International Journal of Communication Ethics Vol.19 No.2, 53-54, ISSN 1742-0105. http://www.abramis.co.uk/ethical-space/journal/v19n2/v19n2.pdf

  5. Kumari, A. December 2017. “Media Narratives of Kashmir Unrest in July 2016: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Newspapers”. Journal of Content, Community and Communication. Vol. 6 Year 3. Amity University. Madhya Pradesh. ISSN: 2395-7514 (Print), ISSN: 2456-9011 (Online)