Nayeemul Islam Khan (Bengali: নাঈমুল ইসলাম খান born 1960) is a Bangladeshi journalist who has been active in the field since 1982.

[3] He is acclaimed as the father of modern approach to the Bengali-language newspaper for his work at Ajker Kahoj, in which he served as editor from its founding 1990 until 1992.

He quit the Bhorer Kagoj in 1992 to run the non-governmental organisation Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communication.

[6] He also started his own daily, Amader Shomoy in 2007 but was removed as publisher by a court order in 2012.

The International Federation of Journalists believed he could have been targeted as he had been making frequent television appearances.