Karma Paljor

Karma Paljor is an award-winning Indian journalist and entrepreneur who co-founded Atvi Infotainment, a content creation company, in 2018. The business verticals include EastMojo.com, a digital news website that reports extensively on northeast India to bring out the lesser-known stories of life in this otherwise ignored region. Karma's career spans 22 years, having started with The Times of India. His first brush with broadcast journalism was with CNBC TV18, where he spent 5 years and moved on to be a founding employee of CNN News18, where he spent 12 years heading various teams and programs.
He was awarded 'Reporter of the Year' by Indiantelevision.com in 2010. He won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism for investigative ground reports in 2011 and 2014. Karma was part of the CNN News18 team that won the award for Best National News Coverage in English at the exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards (ENBA) for their coverage of the devastating Uttrakhand floods in 2013. In 2014, Karma won the ENBA Award in the Best Spot News Reporting (English) category for his coverage of the 'Cyclone Phailin' in Orissa. He has produced, directed, and anchored several award-winning programmes for CNN News 18, including Budget Yatra, Axe the Tax, Reporters Project, and India Positive. He is a Fellow of the sixth class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.