Sarphan Uzunoğlu

Dr. Sarphan Uzunoğlu, Managing Director of NewsLabTurkey, is also a consultant to various international civil society organizations. Named a 2021 Ashoka Fellow, Uzunoğlu completed his PhD at Galatasaray University in 2017 with a thesis on precarious labor practices in journalism. Previously, Uzunoğlu worked as a Lecturer at the Department of Multimedia Journalism at the Lebanese American University, Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Documentation at the Norwegian Arctic University, Lecturer at the Department of Public Relations and Publicity at Kadir Has University, and Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Assistant Professor at Bilgi University and Ankara Bilim University. In the past, Uzunoğlu has contributed to newspapers such as Evrensel and Akşam and magazines such as Mesele, Varlık, Kaos GL.