Ananth Shreyas

Vita

Prior to joining the University of Bremen, he worked for over six years in Indian media and political communication — as a correspondent and bureau head at outlets including The Quint, WION, and Times Now, reporting on elections, communal violence, and governance; as a policy and communications consultant advising the Chief Minister’s Office of Andhra Pradesh; and as a political consultant designing election campaigns for the Indian National Congress in Karnataka. He completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, a Master of Arts in Political Science at St Joseph’s College, Bengaluru, and a Master of Public Policy at the Hertie School, Berlin, where his thesis examined how religious narratives circulate through climate misinformation on YouTube during India’s Maha Kumbh Mela.