About
Karan Deep Singh is an Emmy-nominated journalist, filmmaker, editor and photographer. He has most recently been focusing on long-form storytelling at The New York Times.
Karan has worked for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as a staffer telling stories in visuals and words for nearly a decade. He covered terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka, the crackdown in Kashmir, labor shortage in Japan, and Myanmar’s military campaign that drove more than a million Rohingya refugees to neighboring Bangladesh.
Karan was part of the Journal team that was named a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of Amazon, the e-commerce retailer, and its unsafe global supply chain. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2020 for a short documentary film he produced, filmed and directed. In 2022, he won a South Asian Journalists Association Award for a visual and investigative series about India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. He also won a Human Rights Press Award in 2021 for an investigation into an anti-Muslim campaign in India’s northeast.
Before joining The Times in 2019, Karan spent five years at The Wall Street Journal as a Reporter and Video Journalist reporting from five countries in Asia. He started his career at The Hindustan Times, one of India’s largest English newspapers.