Dr. Beruniy Alimov is a Founder and Director of the New Media Education Center, the newest media NGO in Uzbekistan (2021-present).
He is graduated from the Journalism Department at the National University of Uzbekistan (1990-1995) and the News Agency Journalism course at the IIMC, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (1993-1994).
In 1996 B.Alimov joined the News Agency “Jahon”, where he was an International correspondent in London (1996-1997), Tokyo (2001-2005) and Moscow (2009-2011). Worked as a Press Secretary to the minister of Foreign Economic Relations (1998-2000), to the President of Uzbekistan (2008-2009), to the director of Press and Information Agency (2011-2012). Later he joined Webster University in Tashkent as an Adjunct professor (2020-2021) and also works as an Assistant professor at the International Journalism department of the Uzbek State World Languages University (2012-present).
Received scientific degrees PhD (2018) and DSc (2021) with dissertations on the “Problems of Uzbekistan’s image in the International media”. He has a blog, beruniyalimov.uz, and is active on Facebook with five thousand friends. He is also a Director of the Media Research Institute at the Uzbek State World Languages University (2022-present).