Imran Muzaffar is an academic and freelance journalist based in Srinagar, India. He is Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the Jammu & Kashmir Higher Education Department. He was Assistant Dean (International Relations) at the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities and Chair/Assistant Professor at the Barbie Zelizer Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Woxsen University, Hyderabad. He has also taught at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His publications have appeared in Internet Histories, Media History, Society and Culture in South Asia, Economic and Political Weekly, and others. A 2023 Journalismfund Europe grantee and 2013 ICRC awardee, his investigative journalism has appeared in Mongabay, Dialogue Earth, The Scroll, and others.