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Dr. Nimmagadda Bhargav is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Area at the Indian Institute of Management Indore. His research investigates how communication both shapes and is shaped by institutions, professions, and public life, with particular attention to journalism, media organisations, democratic institutions, and public communication in India and the Global South. Drawing on praxeological and ethnographic approaches, he explores journalistic labour, media autonomy and capture, communication inequalities, climate communication, digital inclusion, and the politics of social and spatial marginality. Bringing together insights from media sociology and critical communication studies, he examines how media institutions negotiate questions of legitimacy, citizenship, governance, and social justice. His research has been published in leading international journals, including Journalism, Journalism Studies, Environmental Communication, and Economic and Political Weekly. Bhargav is the author of Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-town India (Routledge, 2023), a decade-long ethnographic study of India’s peripheral news ecology. Before joining IIM Indore, Bhargav taught at the Manipal Institute of Communication in Manipal and worked as a journalist for national English-language newspapers. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication and an M.Phil. in Regional Studies from the University of Hyderabad and previously served as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded project “Framing the Nation: Citizenship, Conflict, and the Media in Contemporary India”, led by Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He teaches managerial communication, academic writing, media studies, critical reading and analytical writing, and communication research methodology across IPM, PGP, DPM, EDPM, and executive programmes, with an emphasis on critical inquiry, evidence-based reasoning, and flipped-classroom andragogy.