Shikder Abir Mahmud Jahan, renowned by his news byline Sam Jahan, is an award-winning multi-platform journalist currently based in Dhaka.

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Sam studied journalism in the United Kingdom and returned home to explore his career, starting at The Daily Star desk.

 

Later, he single-handedly pioneered the daily’s multimedia front in 2014 by popularising the Mobile Journalism (MoJo) concept among colleagues. 

 

At different stages of his career, he part-timed for CNN, TRT World, ABC Australia, Voice of America, South China Morning Post, and Deutsche Welle.

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Sam was an Agence France-Presse (AFP) text-video correspondent for almost eight years and proudly covered the Rohingya exodus, the ongoing climate crisis, political turmoils, industrial unrest, etc. at home and abroad.

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He currently works for Thomson Reuters as a Video Correspondent.

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Sam won four respected international awards, including three Human Rights Press Awards (HRPA) in 2016, 2018, and 2020 for extensive Rohingya crisis coverage. He also won the Covering Climate Now (CCN) for his groundbreaking climate-related work.

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He is a Fellow of the UK government's respected SAJP programme.

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A renowned press trainer at home and abroad, he worked with Deutsche Welle Akademie and Press Institute Bangladesh, besides running BJIM's BuildingAssets J-School as its Chief Instructor. He lectured at the University of Northampton, Oxford-Brookes University, and Dhaka's North South University as a guest lecturer. He also judged and co-curated several photo exhibitions.

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Sam was a member of the country's Press Accreditation Reevaluation and Reformation Committee, but later resigned when he detected partisanship. He hosts a popular, unfiltered live talk show for journalists called 'Rant and Vent with Papabear'.

 

He is the founder and founding convener of BJIM, along with seven of his other colleagues.

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