Rishab Jain

Former Multi-Format Journalist at Associated Press

India

Digging deep and representing people at the bottom of the pyramid is what I aim to do with my work. Dedicated to a narrative style of journalism that is comprehensive, multi-format and asks the tough questions.

Portfolio

Video and TV Stories

Associated Press
04/26/2019
Colombo unusually quiet after Easter attacks

The Sri Lankan capital is reeling after Easter Sunday bomb attacks rocked the island nation and put the usually bustling capital Colombo in a state of fear.

Stories in print

New York Post
12/30/2021
Myanmar military reverts to strategy of massacres, burnings

BANGKOK - When the young farmhand returned to his village in Myanmar, he found the still smoldering corpses in a circle in a burned-out hut, some with their limbs tied. The Myanmar military had stormed Done Taw at 11 a.m. on Dec.

AP NEWS
10/10/2018
Rohingya teen dreams of higher ed from squalid refugee camp

KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (AP) - At an age when many young Rohingya women have children, Rahima Akter has other plans. From the refugee camp in southern Bangladesh where she was born, Akter, a 19-year-old with a confident smile who goes by the name Khushi, says she aspires to become the most educated Rohingya woman in the world.

AP NEWS
10/14/2020
Lives Lost: Indian doctor embodied his family's dreams

NEW DELHI (AP) - To his family, Joginder Chaudhary was the star son. The 27-year-old was a doctor, the first from their tiny village in central India. He was the eldest son, counted on to send money back to support his parents. He was a dreamer who wanted to open the first clinic to serve his village.

AP NEWS
12/04/2016
In remote Indian village, cannabis is its only livelihood

MALANA, India (AP) - For hundreds of years, the tiny village was just a speck lost amid the grandiose mountains of the Indian Himalayas. Nestled at 2,700 meters (8,859 feet) between the higher reaches of the lush Kullu Valley, Malana used to be a four-day hike from the nearest road.

AP NEWS
07/07/2017
When study abroad ends in death, US parents find few answers

NEW DELHI (AP) - Nearly six years after her son slipped and fell around 100 meters (yards) into a raging mountain river in India, never to be seen again, Elizabeth Brenner is still wondering how such an accident could have happened.

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