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[[File:Ahmer_Khan.jpg|thumb|Ahmer Khan in 2024.]]
'''Ahmer Khan''' (born 11 May 1992) is a [[Kashmir]]-based Independent [[Multimedia journalism|multimedia journalist]] well known across the regions to cover conflict, humanitarian crisis, human rights and migration particularly in [[South Asia]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-21 |title=Emmys 2020: Meet Kashmiri journalist Ahmer Khan, nominated for a CAA documentary |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//how-to-lounge/movies-tv/emmy-2020-meet-kashmiri-journalist-ahmer-khan-nominated-for-a-caa-documentary-111634529412963.html |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Mintlounge |language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Ahmer Khan was born and brought up in a [[Kashmir conflict|conflict region]] and lost his father at the age of 10.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-21 |title=Emmys 2020: Meet Kashmiri journalist Ahmer Khan, nominated for a CAA documentary |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//how-to-lounge/movies-tv/emmy-2020-meet-kashmiri-journalist-ahmer-khan-nominated-for-a-caa-documentary-111634529412963.html |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Mintlounge |language=en}}</ref> Khan family members were known for possessing large slave holdings, which they lost after the 19th century. He spent his early life in [[Srinagar]].

He attended his school and college both in Kashmir and was involved in the field of journalism from the school<ref name="ijnet.org">{{Cite web |title=Journalist of the month: Ahmer Khan |url=https://ijnet.org/en/story/journalist-month-ahmer-khan |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=International Journalists' Network |language=en}}</ref> itself. While in college, Khan's work<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Pictures: Kashmir copes with floods |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2014/9/19/in-pictures-kashmir-copes-with-floods |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref> appeared in [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] as he started working as a freelancer in 2014.<ref name="ijnet.org"/> In 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Journalist of the month: Ahmer Khan |url=https://ijnet.org/en/story/journalist-month-ahmer-khan |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=International Journalists' Network |language=en}}</ref> he went to [[Nepal]] to cover<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Photos: The Youngest Victims of Nepal's Devastating Earthquake |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/in-photos-the-youngest-victims-of-nepals-devastating-earthquake/ |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=Vice.com |language=en}}</ref> the most devastating [[April 2015 Nepal earthquake|earthquake at Nepal]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-05-23 |title=After the Nepal Earthquake |url=https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai-guide/famous-personalities/article/after-the-nepal-earthquake-16234170 |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=Mid-day |language=en}}</ref> that killed more than 8,000 people.

== Reporting ==
Khan’s work covers<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ahmer Khan |url=https://restofworld.org/author/ahmer-khan/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Rest of World |language=en-US}}</ref> humanitarian crises, migration, conflict, and life in South Asian countries.

'''Reports on South Asia and humanitarian grounds'''

In 2022, Khan reported on the extinction of the trams of [[Kolkata]] in [[India]] by documenting a film "Fighting to save the Last Trams of India<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fighting to save Kolkata's historic trams |url=https://www.scmp.com/video/scmp-films/3200774/fighting-save-last-trams-india |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=South China Morning Post}}</ref>" for [[South China Morning Post|SCMP News]]. In the same year, Khan covered the humanitarian cause from [[Assam]], through his film for [[Vice News|Vice]], Muslims in India are Losing Their Rights and Homes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Muslims in India are Losing Their Rights and Homes |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/muslim-evictions-assam-india-citizenship-rights/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Vice.com |language=en}}</ref> Ahmer also documented the deadly conspiracy theory, [[Love jihad|Love Jehad]]<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ellis-Petersen |first1=Hannah |last2=Khan |first2=Ahmer |last3=Evangelou |first3=Kyri |last4=Alam |first4=Sartaj |last5=Lamborn |first5=Katie |date=2022-01-21 |title=Love jihad: India's lethal religious conspiracy theory – video |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/jan/21/love-jihad-indias-lethal-religious-conspiracy-theory-video |access-date=2023-01-17 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> for [[The Guardian]] in 2022.

In 2021, Khan highlighted yet another human threatening story, "Muslims in India’s Tripura state fear another revenge attack<ref>{{Cite web |title=Muslims in India's Tripura state fear another revenge attack |url=https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/muslims-in-india-s-tripura-state-fear-another-revenge-attack-51207 |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=Muslims in India’s Tripura state fear another revenge attack |language=en}}</ref>" in [[TRT World|TRT world]] from India's [[Tripura]]. Later that year, when the whole world was affected by Global pandemic, he managed to report a life threatening and devastating story as a film, Inside India's Covid Hell<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Inside India's COVID Hell |url=https://www.unifiedfilmmakers.com/medialibrary/inside-indias-covid-hell/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Unified Filmmakers |language=en-US}}</ref> for [[Vice News]]. Same year, on the global pandemic, he cinematographed a visual story, The Vaccine Divide,<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 15, 2021 |first=Paul |last=Abowd |title=The Vaccine Divide |url=https://theintercept.com/2021/06/15/vaccine-divide-covid/ |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=The Intercept |language=en}}</ref> on how the Covid Vaccines are being used as a private property by the men in chair for [[The Intercept]]. In 2021, again on the pandemic scene, Khan filmed a story that narrated the struggles of Health workers to bring Covid Vaccines to their region, "Health workers trek to remote areas to bring Covid-19 vaccines to [[Indian Administered Kashmir|Indian-administered Kashmir]]",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Preventing Covid-19 in remote Indian-held Kashmir |url=https://www.scmp.com/video/scmp-films/3141457/health-workers-trek-remote-areas-bring-covid-19-vaccines-indian |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=South China Morning Post}}</ref> [[South China Morning Post|SCMP]]. In 2021, he also reported about demolishment on orchards<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Khan |first1=Ahmer |last2=Mir |first2=Shoaib |date=2021-05-26 |title=The Ill Fruits of Demographic Engineering in Kashmir |url=https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-ill-fruits-of-demographic-engineering-in-kashmir/ |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=New Lines Magazine |language=en}}</ref> in a story, [https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-ill-fruits-of-demographic-engineering-in-kashmir/ "The Ill Fruits of Demographic Engineering in Kashmir"] for [[Newslines Magazine|News Line Magazine]]

'''Reports on migration and from Conflict zones'''

Ahmer Khan has covered positive and hopeful stories about migrations and conflict zones that include [https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/3/4/the-uighur-and-syrian-refugees-making-a-home-together-in-turkey "The Uighur and Syrian refugees making a home together in Turkey"] for [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] and [https://restofworld.org/2021/kashmir-delivery-startup-beats-foreign-competition/ How a local delivery startup outplayed big foreign competitors in Kashmir] for [https://restofworld.org/ Rest of World]

Khan has reported about the survival of [[Rohingya people]], in a story for [[Vice News]] [https://www.vice.com/en/article/these-are-the-rohingya-children-who-escaped-myanmars-ethnic-cleansing/ These are the Rohingya Children Who Escaped Myanmar's 'Ethnic Cleansing'].

He also reported stories about how people cope in natural calamities like floods<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Pictures: Kashmir copes with floods |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2014/9/19/in-pictures-kashmir-copes-with-floods |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref> and earthquakes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Photos: The Youngest Victims of Nepal's Devastating Earthquake |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/in-photos-the-youngest-victims-of-nepals-devastating-earthquake/ |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=Vice.com |language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and milestones ==
Ahmer Khan has received recognition across the regions and has been awarded with numerous awards<ref>{{Cite web |title='Covering other humanitarian stories helped me process the trauma of J&K, my homeland' |url=https://www.theweek.in/leisure/society/2020/10/18/covering-other-humanitarian-stories-helped-me-process-the-trauma-of-jandk-my-homeland.html |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref> both locally as well as globally.

* 2018, Ahmer bagged<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-06 |title=Kashmiri photo-journalist Ahmer Khan bags Lorenzo Natali Prize 2018 {{!}} Free Press Kashmir |url=https://freepresskashmir.news/2018/06/06/kashmiri-photo-journalist-ahmer-khan-bags-lorenzo-natali-prize-2018/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=freepresskashmir.news |language=en-GB}}</ref> [[Lorenzo Natali Media Prize|Lorenzo Natali Price]] for his story [http://en.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20170404-school-under-metro-bridge-teaches-Delhi-children A school under metro bridge].
* 2019, Ahmer won [https://www.afp.com/en/inside-afp/kashmir-journalist-wins-afps-kate-webb-prize AFP’s Kate Webb Prize]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-02-20 |title=Indian Journalist Wins AFP's Kate Webb Prize For J&K Coverage |url=https://www.thequint.com/news/india/indian-freelance-journalist-ahmer-khan-wins-afp-kate-webb-prize-for-jammu-kashmir-reportage |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=TheQuint |language=en}}</ref> for the indispensable media coverage on impact of restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir after [[Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir|abrogation of article 370]].
* 2020, Ahmer, with his team mate, [[Isobel Yeung]], has been awarded<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Edward R. Murrow Award 2020
|url=https://opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/the-edward-r-murrow-award-2020/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=OPC |language=en-US}}</ref> with the [[Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)|Edward R. Murrow Award]] by [[Overseas Press Club|Overseas Press club]] for their film [https://www.sho.com/vice/season/1/episode/2/india-burning-and-russias-fight-factory India burning] with his team, was awarded with 24th [https://humanrightspressawards.org/ Human Rights Press Award] <ref>{{Cite web |title=Short Video {{!}} Human Rights Press Awards |url=https://humanrightspressawards.org/award-cat/short-video |access-date=2022-12-13 |language=en-US}}</ref> for the short movie [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JtibKy_xkk Defending Kashmir]. A glorious year - 2020, Ahmer was a finalist in the prestigious [[Emmy Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-21 |title=Emmys 2020: Meet Kashmiri journalist Ahmer Khan, nominated for a CAA documentary |url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com//how-to-lounge/movies-tv/emmy-2020-meet-kashmiri-journalist-ahmer-khan-nominated-for-a-caa-documentary-111634529412963.html |access-date=2022-11-16 |website=Mintlounge |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Sharon |title=Kashmir journalist Ahmer Khan's series nominated for Emmy |url=https://www.thebridgechronicle.com/news/nation/kashmir-journalist-ahmer-khans-series-nominated-emmy-54184 |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=The Bridge Chronicle |language=en}}</ref> for the film [https://www.sho.com/vice/season/1/episode/2/india-burning-and-russias-fight-factory India Burning] besides being awarded with [[Rory Peck Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Siddharth Bokolia & Ahmer Khan |url=https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/siddharth-bokolia-ahmer-khan-profile/ |access-date=2022-11-09 |website=The Rory Peck Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> for the same movie [https://www.sho.com/vice/season/1/episode/2/india-burning-and-russias-fight-factory India Burning] in the same year
* 2021, Ahmer brought home [[Lovie Award|Lovei award]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=TRT World Digital wins four Lovie Awards |url=https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/trt-world-digital-wins-four-lovie-awards-51735 |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=TRT World Digital wins four Lovie Awards |language=en}}</ref> for his [[TRT World|TRT world]] digital video [[Love jihad|Love Jehad]]<ref>{{Citation |title=Love Jihad in India's Uttar Pradesh |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXwcUK1-evo |language=en |access-date=2022-12-13}}</ref> and was awarded with [[Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award|Alfred. I Dupont - Columbia Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=2021 duPont-Columbia Award Winners |url=https://news.columbia.edu/news/2021-dupont-columbia-award-winners |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=Columbia News |language=en}}</ref> for his famous film [https://www.sho.com/vice/season/1/episode/2/india-burning-and-russias-fight-factory India Burning]. Besides this, Ahmer also became a finalist in [[Scripps Howard Awards]] for the same film [https://www.sho.com/vice/season/1/episode/2/india-burning-and-russias-fight-factory India Burning]
* 2023, Ahmer was awarded '[https://rorypecktrust.org/awards/ahmer-khan/ Martin Adler Prize]' for his work for [[The Guardian]] by [[Rory Peck Trust]] at [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA awards]] in London.
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Md Omar Faruq at 22:04, 4 December 2025