Devadas Rajaram

Prof. Devadas Rajaram is a faculty at Alliance University, Bangalore, where he teaches Digital Storytelling, AI-driven Storytelling. He is the former Senior Editor-in-Chief of Info2Cell.com, widely recognised as the world’s first mobile storytelling platform, and the co-founder of NowAgeStorytelling.

With more than 15 years of experience in print and digital journalism across the Middle East and the United Kingdom, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of mobile journalism and interactive multimedia storytelling. He holds a Master’s degree in International Multimedia Journalism from Newcastle University and began experimenting with mobile storytelling as early as 1998.

Since 2012, he has been teaching mobile journalism, social media, and interactive multimedia storytelling at Asian College of Journalism. He has also served as a visiting professor at Stuttgart Media University and Hyderabad Central University, and has taught multimedia and mobile journalism at American University in Bulgaria.

In 2018, he was recognised by MediaShift as one of the 20 leading journalism innovators worldwide - the only Asian to be featured on the list - for his contributions at the intersection of media, technology, and storytelling.