Academic recognition
Dean’s List Scholarship
4 consecutive semesters. One student per department, per term.
algorithmic accountability
platform economy
information disorder
digital journalism
epistemic equity
platform governance
media literacy
Miraz Hossain
Researcher · Journalist · Educator
I study how algorithms reshape truth, trust, and public knowledge, with a focus on South Asia's digital information ecosystems. And I intervene.
Currently doing
BSS in Media Studies and Journalism — 9th Semester
Currently learning
Python & NetworkX
By the numbers
3.99
CGPA · 4.00 scale
2
Papers in progress
200+
OSINT/digital verification training
100+
students counselled
220
bylines archived
15+
workshops led
Recognition
ULAB representation · 9 Oct 2025
Representing ULAB
Selected as one of two students to meet the Ambassador of Kosovo with the Vice Chancellor.
Press freedom · Aug 2024
Journalist under attack
Attacked while reporting on the July–August uprising for The Business Standard; later named in a CPJ alert.
Also recognised
- 2026 Wrote the English interpretive labels for the July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum, contributing exhibition text for Bangladesh’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs
- 2026 Promoted to Director at ForensIQ — ULAB’s student-led digital forensic lab
- 2026 Joined FactWatch as Research Assistant, supporting misinformation tracking and rumour-cascade analysis
- 2023–24 U.S. Embassy Dhaka amplified two TBS features — one on Bangladesh’s International Math Olympiad journey and one on Professor Taher Saif’s National Academy of Engineering fellowship. IMO post · Taher Saif post
- 2022 Prize-winning essays: 3rd Prize in the University of Dhaka English Department’s Life in the Times of Corona literary contest, plus Honourable Mention / Top 10 in the national SDG Essay Competition at ICE Center, University of Dhaka
- 2022 Named among TBS Best Profiles 2022 & 2023 at The Business Standard
- 2022–23 President, English Department Art & Literary Club — University of Dhaka
- Sep 2024 Registered World Bank vendor for English–Bangla translation
Work experience
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Supporting Bangladesh's pioneering fact-checking organisation with misinformation tracking, rumour-cascade analysis, verification workflows, and research-facing documentation around the Bangla-language information ecosystem.
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Investigated political corruption, military misconduct, and governance failures using OSINT, cross-source verification, and accountability reporting techniques. Browse Netra pieces.
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Published 200+ in-depth features on governance, digital rights, technology, and freedom of expression. Also sub-edited 50+ stories and was named among TBS Best Profiles 2022. Browse TBS archive.
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Director from June 2026 to present; previously Head of Digital Investigations from May 2025 to May 2026. Leading misinformation and propaganda investigations, training journalism students and practitioners in OSINT and verification, and building public-interest methods around digital evidence.
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Teaching undergraduate academic writing, rhetorical structure, critical communication, and fossilized-error correction across multiple cohorts.
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Sep 2021 – Aug 2022
Junior Education Counsellor
SI-UK Bangladesh · Higher Education Associates Ltd.
Guided students through higher-education options, university shortlisting, admission requirements, scholarships, SOPs, and applications during a one-year counselling role documented by SI-UK Bangladesh.
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2017 – Present
Freelance Translator & Education ConsultantIndependent writing, translation, and education support
Registered World Bank vendor for English–Bangla translation since September 2024, with 100+ students counselled, 50+ SOPs edited, around 100 UK university applications processed, and report-writing work including an annual sustainability report for Apex.
Education
Current degree
BSS in Media Studies and Journalism
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh
Sep 2023 – 2027 (expected)
Courses Include:
- Methods of Social Research
- Digital Audience
- Communication Research
- Introduction to Data and Statistics
Professional Training & Certifications
76 completions across Oxford, Ivy League, AFP, and Google
verify credentials ↗Public presence
German Embassy Dhaka · 29 Oct 2024
Media literacy panel discussion
I joined the German Embassy Dhaka’s media literacy panel as a young journalist and researcher working at the front line of Bangladesh’s information disorder. The conversation placed my work beside youth leadership, civic resistance, and public-interest journalism.
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RESONANCE
Notes of encouragement
“Miraz is one of the most versatile feature writers I've worked with; no matter what the story, I could rest assured that he would not leave any stone unturned in his pursuit of the report. All investigative stories assigned to him yielded complete reports where I rarely had to ask him to include additional information after submissions.”
“It honestly felt too good to be free because it was really that good.”