Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan

Sonny Inbaraj Krishnan has spent more than 25 years reporting, editing and strengthening journalism across South and Southeast Asia. At present he is online news editor and media trainer at Cambodianess in Phnom Penh, where he mentors reporters and works on everything from breaking news to long-form journalism.

His career has taken him from newsrooms to media-development and health-communication roles with Internews, WHO, FAO and other international organizations, including assignments in conflict-affected countries such as Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka. Sonny was awarded Portugal’s Cross of the Order of Merit for his human rights reporting in Timor-Leste. He holds a master’s degree in humanitarian studies from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in the U.K.

With Knight Center certificates in solutions journalism and climate solutions journalism and years of experience mentoring journalists across the region, Sonny is particularly interested in how journalists learn from one another. He is the author of two books on the occupation of East Timor and the use of girl child soldiers in Sri Lanka’s civil war. He is currently co-editing an anthology of humanitarian stories from the Cambodia-Thailand conflict.