The Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) is a journalism school in Chennai, India, which offers postgraduate diploma courses in journalism. Asian College of Journalism, Chennai was founded in Bangalore as the Asian School of Journalism, Bangalore. It was founded in 1994 by the Indian Express group, offering only a print course. In 2000, it was taken over by a not-for-profit trust founded by journalist and media entrepreneur, Sashi Kumar. It was renamed and shifted to Chennai, in the same location as the old Hindu office on Wallajah Road. Since then, the institution has relocated to an 80,000 sq. ft location in Taramani that includes the college and residential blocks, both four storeys high. It now comes under the aegis of the Media Development Foundation, headed by chairman Sashi Kumar. For the first two years in Chennai it was headed by K. Thomas Oommen.