Danish mand Khan

Video journalist · New Delhi

Energy, climate and environment,
on camera and on the page.

Three years reporting, shooting, anchoring and cutting for two of India’s leading newsrooms — and running the channel, calendar and creatives that carry a film once it’s published. Most recently at Down To Earth.

Beat Energy, climate & environment policy
Views to date 978,311
Languages English, Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, German (B1)
Showreel · 2026
Danish Mand Khan — Video Journalism Showreel 2026 2:06 ▶
Selected work
Still from Kochi’s Transport Transformation 17:45 The lead film Kochi’s Transport Transformation Integrated public electric mobility and EV infrastructure — a 17-minute film for the How India Moves series. 103K views Shot, reported, scripted and edited · Aug 2025

Down To Earth

Dec 2024 — Jul 2026
4:31 India & Europe Push Circular Economy to Cut Textile Waste Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 12K Feb 2026 2:38 India’s 2026 Monsoon Warning: Weak Rains and the Slow March Toward Water Bankruptcy Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 12K Feb 2026 1:55 No Snow, No Rain: Uttarakhand’s Worst Climate Crisis Unfolds Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 95K Jan 2026 16:14 Another Sal Borer epidemic in the making? Co-reported, scripted, shot, voiced and edited 10K Jan 2026 4:44 Iceland’s Existential Crisis: Is The Atlantic Current’s Collapse Imminent? Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 9K Nov 2025 2:48 Mosquitoes Discovered in Iceland for the First Time Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 11K Oct 2025 12:43 Delhi’s Suburban Rail: The Lost Lifeline of the Capital Shot, edited and voiced 21K Oct 2025 3:20 Strait of Hormuz on the Brink: Global Oil Crisis Looms Scripted, shot and edited 41K Jun 2025 3:52 ‘Ocean’ premieres on May 8th, David Attenborough’s 99th Birthday Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 62K May 2025 6:13 Did Science Just Resurrect the Prehistoric Dire Wolf? Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 36K Apr 2025 4:20 How to bridge the increasing water gap in India? Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 64K Mar 2025 5:14 Is the river Ganga really dip-safe with Maha Kumbh 2025 focus on waste management? Scripted, anchored and edited 98K Jan 2025

ThePrint

Sep 2023 — Oct 2024
8:02 Sharp ethnic divide, thousands in relief camps — why is Manipur muted this election season Shot and co-reported from Manipur during the 2024 poll boycott 43K Apr 2024 50:58 BJP’s prospects after Modi, Congress’ future post 2024, Bihar politics: interview with Prashant Kishor Shot and produced 364K Feb 2024
Design & layout

Turning energy research into pages and posts

Concept work, built from IEEFA and Ember’s published Indian States’ Electricity Transition (SET) 2026 analysis. Not commissioned by IEEFA and never published by them — made to show how the research reads once it’s laid out.

SET 2026 report spread

Adobe InDesign · 2 pages
Executive summary — SET 2026 report spread
Executive summary
State assessment — SET 2026 report spread
State assessment

SET 2026 social carousel

Canva · 3 slides, 4:5
Opening slide — SET 2026 social carousel
Opening slide
Data slide — SET 2026 social carousel
Data slide
Closing slide — SET 2026 social carousel
Closing slide
Photographs

Witch hunting in Rajasthan

Photographs from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan and the violence it enabled against women — reported and shot as my final-semester submission at AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023.

Selected photographs

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Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 1
Rajasthan · 2023
Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 2
Rajasthan · 2023
Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 3
Rajasthan · 2023
Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 4
Rajasthan · 2023
Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 5
Rajasthan · 2023
Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 6
Rajasthan · 2023
Photograph from a documentary project on witch hunting in Rajasthan — AJK-MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, 2023 — frame 7
Rajasthan · 2023

Published work

Down To Earth · Feb 2026
Down To Earth cover, 16–28 February 2026, ‘Sal Borer Returns’ — photograph from the Sal Borer report in Madhya Pradesh
Cover photo for Down To Earth’s February issue. Reporting on the brewing Sal Borer epidemic in Madhya Pradesh.
Writing

Explaining the world to readers who don’t live in it

Bylined explainers on international affairs — Europe, Ukraine, the Middle East and Latin America — written from Delhi for a general Indian readership. The energy and climate writing sits in the films above; each one was scripted before it was shot.

International explainers — IndiaTimes

Dec 2022 — Feb 2023

Six of the run. Full archive on the explainers desk.

Explained: Netherlands’ Apology for Slavery Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, apologised for his country’s role in slavery during the high tide of Dutch colonialism in the 17th and 18th centuries. Europe Dec 2022 Explained: Why Turkey Doesn’t Want Sweden’s Entry Into NATO Sweden’s entry into NATO rests on Ankara’s assent — and the Qur’an burning in Stockholm hardened Türkiye’s refusal to let it in. Europe Feb 2023 Explained: The Role of Private Mercenaries in the Russia–Ukraine War Russian forces had been trying to take Bakhmut for seven months. Zelenskyy said the assault had reduced the city to ‘burnt ruins’. Ukraine Dec 2022 Explained: What Did Ukraine’s President Zelensky Get From His Recent Trip to the US Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Washington on 21 December — a visit read as a historic moment for Ukraine since the war began that February. Ukraine Dec 2022 Explained: The Implications of a Turkish Attack on Syria Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Kurdish groups along the Turkish–Syrian border of land attacks, following the deadly bombing in Istanbul on 13 November. Middle East Dec 2022 Explained: Why Brazil and Argentina Planned a Common Currency Brazil and Argentina planned to combine the real and the peso into a currency union — second only to the euro if it succeeded. Latin America Feb 2023

Opinion and features — ThePrint

2024
Two photographs bookend my understanding of India & my place in it as an Indian-Muslim If the photograph of the demolition of Babri Masjid is an assertion of power, then the Shaheen Bagh photograph is a resistance to that power. Opinion Jan 2024 The Great Gama was the ‘undefeated wrestler of India’. Beat European champion in 3 seconds India has preserved an equipment the champion wrestler put to use — a 100 kg hasli now housed in the National Institute of Sports at Patiala. Profile May 2024
Experience

Video Journalist & Digital Content Producer

Down To Earth · New Delhi · Dec 2024 — Jul 2026
  • Scripted, shot, anchored and edited 3+ films a week on energy, climate and environment policy — research through to CMS publishing, start to finish. Work drew over 570,000 views.
  • Ran the desk’s YouTube channel day to day — content calendar, copy, creative design and publishing — and managed the shared Google Calendar for meetings and interviews.
  • Cut one-minute vertical reels for YouTube Shorts from own long-form films.
  • Assisted on the production of data-led creatives and motion graphics in Canva and After Effects; produced the monthly podcasts Carbon Politics and Beyond the Plate.

Video Journalist

ThePrint · New Delhi · Sep 2023 — Oct 2024
  • Shot and co-reported from Manipur during the 2024 poll boycott amid ethnic tensions, producing field packages independently under breaking-news deadlines.
  • Shot and produced coverage of Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Yatra across Bihar and the 2024 Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.
  • Cut long-form field footage into short-form and vertical video for YouTube and social distribution.
Craft
On camera
Scripting, anchoring and voicing pieces to camera; field reporting to broadcast deadlines
Video
Premiere Pro, After Effects — camera, editing, one-minute vertical cutdowns for Shorts
Design & layout
Canva, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop — report formatting, infographics, style guidelines
YouTube
Channel management, content calendars, YouTube Studio, titles and copy, analytics
Writing & workflow
Scriptwriting, CMS publishing, G-Suite, remote collaboration
Education

Jamia Millia Islamia — Convergent Journalism (AJK-MCRC), 2023 · MA English Literature, 2017
Shyamlal College, University of Delhi — BA English Literature, 2014
Goethe-Institut — Goethe-Zertifikat A1 (Start Deutsch 1), 2026

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