Formerly a political reporter, Abu Taib Ahmed is a 6th year Ph.D. student in the Journalism and Media Communication department at Colorado State University. He is specializing in media sociology, particularly in how various socio-political factors shape journalism practice. Using sociological lens, he investigates factors influencing news media content in a specific society. In his Ph.D. dissertation, he has re-conceptualized Shoemaker and Reese's Hierarchy of Influences Model (HIM) as the Single Society Model (SSIM), to explore “variance influencing factors” for a focused analysis of why media organizations within the same social context produce varied news framing. This is expected to help explore why media outlets operating within the same media ecosystem deviate from discharging their public service role.

His research focuses on journalism studies and media sociology. In particular, he studies the relationship between journalists-and-journalism and any factors that influence journalists and journalism. Abu Ahmed is also interested in journalistic ethics, mission of journalism, journalist role conceptions, political communication, and the digital/online public sphere. His research utilizes textual analysis, ethnography, interviews, and survey methods.

After obtaining his Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Geology & Mining at the University of Rajshahi, Ahmed ended up being a journalist back in Bangladesh and worked for three leading English-language dailies in Bangladesh as a political reporter for 15 years until 2018. He also worked for several internal media outlets including Swedish national radio and the South Asian Monitor.

Ahmed got his master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Media Studies in 2020.

Abu Ahmed teaches media/news writing and strategic communication writing.