JAMIL KHAN

Jamil Khan has a Ph.D. in Journalism and presently serves as associate professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication of the Daffodil International University. He is the author of the country's first complete mobile journalism book ‘Mobile Journalism: journalism of our time.’

Before joining DIU this February 2023, Dr. Jamil khan had previously been associated with the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh as its assistant professor since October 2019. Prior to joining ULAB, Dr. Jamil has experience teaching at the University of Dhaka as an Adjunct Faculty at the Mass Communication and Journalism department and also served as a Specialist in Mobile Journalism at the country’s top media organization, Prothom Alo.

From 2014 to 2017, he was a faculty of the Department of Mass Communications at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. He was a visiting lecturer of Uppsala University, Sweden in 2011 & University of Korea in 2013. Mr. Khan was the speaker of Asia's first international mobile journalism conference ‘MoJo Asia’ held in Bangkok in 2019. He has passed an online moderation course at E-moderation which is an award winning Social Media Management company in the UK.

In addition to training and teaching, he also made a significant contribution to researching for the betterment of Media. His principal areas of interest in terms of research include new media development and communication, the impact of technology on journalism, mobile journalism, convergence journalism, the impact of social media and citizen journalism, and the integration of social media with mainstream mass media.

Over these years, Dr. Jamil has conducted seminars – workshops on digital means of journalism across the nation and abroad at places like the “Press Institute Bangladesh (PIB), the National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC), and so on. Apart from his university students, he has trained more than a thousand students and journalists in Bangladesh and abroad thus far.