Rafat was the Knight Fellow at Indiana University, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000. Prior to that he completed his BSc in Computer Engineering, from AMU in Aligarh, India.

Rafat Ali Returns From the Wilderness. ByDan Bigman, Former Staff. I'm Managing Editor for Business News at Forbes. Sep 01, 2010, 11:06am EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old.

PaidContent founder Rafat Ali will leave ContentNext and Guardian News & Media at the beginning of July, the company said Friday. Ali started paidContent as a blog in 2002, and later added three ...

One of my daily reliables is respected digital news site PaidContent, founded by Rafat Ali eight years ago. Ever since he sold PaidContent to The Guardian’s ContentNext two years back, Ali’s ...

Ten years ago, Rafat Ali wanted to build a company that could chronicle the transformation of media and technology. Now he hopes to do it again, this time in the world of travel. His new project Skift ...

Rafat Ali — who built paidContent, sold paidContent, took two years off to travel and said he did not want to go back to beating his head against the collapsing wall of journalism — is back in ...

Skift founder and CEO Rafat Ali is being recognized as one of travel's most influential leaders for 2022 by CRANT, a digital marketing company.CRANT, which used a formula that included tracking ...

PaidContent's Rafat Ali Launches Skift Travel Site. What do you do after you build and sell a pioneering digital media startup? Take two years off, and start building another media startup.

Chat with Rafat Ali, founder of PaidContent, the blog that covers digital media about balancing being an entrepreneur and a writer. Skip to content.

Rafat Ali, founder of paidContent, sold his company to The Guardian for roughly $12.5 millionin 2008. Then he spent two years traveling the world, in a "quest for isolation after eight clamorous ...