CNS Writers' Bureau

The community-writers of Citizen News Service (CNS) are voluntary citizen journalists passionately writing about development-related issues in their communities from their national contexts. Presently there are CNS writers from more than five countries in Asia and Africa.

Dr Sandeep Pandey, Magsaysay Awardee
Arundhati Dhuru 
Anjali Singh
Medha Patkar 
Shobha Shukla - CNS
Babs Verblackt
Alberto Colorado
Pushpa Achanta 
Kulsum Mustafa 
Constanze Ruprecht
Ishdeep Kohli
Nadine Ferris France
Dr Madhukar Pai
Somya Arora
Elisabetta Minelli
Jitendra Dwivedi
Alka Pande
Shikha Srivastava
Neeraj Mainali
Nadeem Salmani
Nasiruddin Haider Khan
Chief K Masimba Biriwasha 
Prof Rama Kant
Dr Rahul Pandey (Editor, Movement of India)
Bindu Gurtoo 
Bobby Ramakant - CNS
Dr Nutan Thakur 
Kashif-ul-Huda, (Editor, Two Circles.net)
Tiamerenla Monalisa Changkija 
Nava Thakuria 
Dr Sanat Mohanty (Editor, TheSouthAsian)
Jittima Jantanamalaka - CNS
Blessina Kumar
Rahul Kumar Dwivedi - CNS
Sarika Tripathi 
Sandip Dasverma 
Shubhranshu Choudhary 
SR Darapuri, IPS officer (retd) and Vice President, PUCL, UP
Dr Sugata Mukhopadhyay
Jojanneke Nieuwenhuis
Asghar Ali Engineer
Vasu Shena Misra 
Aridamanjit Singh 
Dr Shura Darapuri
Yifat Susskind
Amit Dwivedi 
Bal Kishan Kayan
Vallabhacharya Pandey
Arka Mukhopadhyay

HINDI CNS

डॉ संदीप पाण्डेय  

अंजली सिंह 

अरविन्द मूर्ति

अरुंधती धुरु

अजीत साही
शोभा शुक्ला

चुन्नीलाल

जितेन्द्र द्विवेदी

दुर्गेश नारायण शुक्ला

नव ठाकुरिया

नासिरूद्दीन हैदर खाँ

निधि शाह

बाबी रमाकांत

महेश कुमार पाण्डेय

राहुल पाण्डेय

वासुशेन मिश्रा

शुभ्रांशु चौधरी

संदीप दासवर्मा

सनत मोहंती

अमित द्विवेदी

How to become a writer for CNS?

Self-motivated individuals passionate about issues affecting their lives are welcome to contribute in different languages to CNS. They must read the following documents before sending their content:


- Content Submission Policy and Agreement
- Privacy Policy
- Issues in CNS Spotlight

- CNS Writers' Bureau
- Creative Commons Attribution License

- Press Council of India (PCI) Guidelines on HIV/AIDS reporting
- Press Council of India (PCI) Guidelines on election reporting
- BBC News Styleguide
- BBC Editorial Guidelines
- About Us


 If the potential writers (citizen journalists or community correspondents) agree to the CNS Content Submission Policy and Agreement, privacy policy, issues CNS focuses on, creative commons attribution license and other documents that define core values of CNS, they are welcome to send an email about their expression of interest to join CNS Writers' Bureau to fellows@citizen-news.org . Our CNS team will get back to you with further details.