Sunny Hundal
Hello! My website is a collection of things I've done. Feel free to poke around.
My work has related to my two passions: internet technology and journalism. Having been a programmer, a web journalist, newspaper columnist, a lecturer, blogger, author and McDonald's worker, I can at least say I have neither wanted nor had a conventional career. Still learning and trying new things. The world doesn't stop changing and neither will I.
I’m a trustee at Volteface, which advocates for drugs legislation reform in Britain, and patron at Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right.
You can download a (one-page version of) my CV / resume from here.
My work has related to my two passions: internet technology and journalism. Having been a programmer, a web journalist, newspaper columnist, a lecturer, blogger, author and McDonald's worker, I can at least say I have neither wanted nor had a conventional career. Still learning and trying new things. The world doesn't stop changing and neither will I.
I’m a trustee at Volteface, which advocates for drugs legislation reform in Britain, and patron at Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right.
You can download a (one-page version of) my CV / resume from here.
Latest Work
- Financial Times: We must not be complacent about Britain’s multicultural democracy
- Sunday Times: Spare us the Sunak sycophancy, Modi. You're a hypocrite
- My Substack - Where I do most of my writing
- New Statesman: Suella Braverman’s India debacle proves the contradictions of Brexit
- New Statesman: Leicester shows Hindu nationalism is no longer confined to India
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JOURNALISM
Deputy Opinion editor
The Independent : Feb 2022 - Sept. 2022
Helping manage Opinion desk
Commissioned, edited and wrote articles, daily
The Independent : Feb 2022 - Sept. 2022
Journalist
European Climate Foundation : Jan - Dec 2021 (p/t)
Researched & wrote on a range of topics
From climate change and clean energy to deforestation, carbon capture and natural gas.
FrontPageLive : May 2019 - Mar 2020 (p/t)
Helped shape the design & content from launch
Wrote stories for US audiences
Delegated stories to colleagues
European Climate Foundation : Jan - Dec 2021 (p/t)
FrontPageLive : May 2019 - Mar 2020 (p/t)
TV Presenter and Writer
BBC 1 : Jan 2020
'Young, Sikh and Proud'
Two brothers, growing up and clashing in modern Britain
Developed idea with production house
Wrote & presented 40 minute film
BBC 2 Daily Politics
Wrote & presented two monologues
On UK policy on Saudi Arabia and Syria
BBC 1 : Jan 2020
BBC 2 Daily Politics
Co-author, UK Home Office report
Commission for Countering Extremism
'Changing Nature of UK Sikh Activism' - Oct 2019
Sole UK government (public) report on Sikhs
We designed, researched and wrote report
Informs Home Office policy
Commission for Countering Extremism
Opinion Columnist
Columnist, Independent
Columnist, The Guardian
Columnist, Hindustan Times
Contributed to: The Times, New Statesman, Quartz.com, the i, The Metro, The FT, Newsweek, Al Jazeera and CNN.
Author
Guardian Books : 2013
"India Dishonoured: Behind a nation’s war on its women"
E-book commissioned by Guardian and Amazon UK.
Rated 4.5* on Amazon; excerpted in The Guardian.
Led to Tedx invitations: Amsterdam and India.
Guardian Books : 2013
"India Dishonoured: Behind a nation’s war on its women"
Website Editor
I have run a number of successful online publications, covering politics and culture.
Political Scrapbook : 2016 - 2017
Recruited as editor for veteran political news site.
Grew audience by 400% by using social media
Ran stories that made national press
Barfi Culture : 2016 – 2020
News magazine on South Asian diaspora
Had a team working alongside me
Broke numerous big stories
Liberal Conspiracy : 2007 – 2013
Founder and editor, 150+ writers
UK’s most popular (independent) centre-left politics site
Won numerous awards, several stories hit national press
Asians in Media : 2003 – 2009
Founder & editor of industry journal
Reported British ethnic media
Built 10,000+ strong email list
I have run a number of successful online publications, covering politics and culture.
Political Scrapbook : 2016 - 2017
Barfi Culture : 2016 – 2020
Liberal Conspiracy : 2007 – 2013
Asians in Media : 2003 – 2009
TECHNOLOGY
Social media editor
openDemocracy : 2017 - 2021 (p/t)
Tasked with understanding and expanding audiences (search, social, email, direct)
Helped reshape editing (headlines etc)
Oversaw huge growth in social engagement
Created internal guidelines for social
openDemocracy : 2017 - 2021 (p/t)
Senior Visiting Lecturer
Kingston University : 2014 - 2016 (p/t)
Lectured and marked work on digital journalism
How to use web to find stories
How to develop news websites
Kingston University : 2014 - 2016 (p/t)
Startup Founder: Rippla
2011 - 2013
‘Rippla’ tracked impact of news stories on different social media sites
Built tools using public APIs, JSON, PHP, RSS, Javascript & MySql
Published data, used by Ofcom and news orgs
Tracked news impact for clients
2011 - 2013
Web Programmer
MViva : 2001 - 2002
Early WAP mobile-internet venture
Worked with HTML, javascript, CSS and PHP
Cube8 : 1999 - 2001
Portal site for e-commerce
Worked with HTML, javascript, CSS and PHP
MViva : 2001 - 2002
Cube8 : 1999 - 2001
Tools used: Google Analytics, Data Studio, Ad Manager, Charts; Facebook Business Manager; Twitter ads; Photoshop, Wordpress, jQuery and many more