Anmol Alphonso is a fact-checker with BOOM. He has previously interned at IndiaSpend as a fact-checker and was a reporting intern at Times of India, Indian Express, and Mid-Day. He is a post-graduate diploma holder in journalism from St Paul’s Institute of Communication Education, Mumbai.

Swasti Chatterjee is BOOM’s News Editor (East) and project coordinator of the two international verticals of BOOM in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Yangon (Myanmar). She is a fact-checker and media literacy trainer; Swasti has worked in the mainstream media in the capacity of a senior correspondent and chief copy editor with publications including The Times of India, The Indian Express and NDTV.com. She has majorly covered films, education and city while her tenure with these organisations

Journalist by profession, writer by passion, Shefali has 10 Years of Experience in the field of journalism. During this tenure she has worked with several organisations of Print media and digital Media including Dainik Bhaskar Digital, Gaon Connection and Navbharat Times Digital. She has done her Masters in Mass Communication and Political Science. She has an interest in Health, Women and Politics. She has done health related stories and video interviews during COVID-19, Human Angle and women oriented stories during elections. She has also worked with election special teams. She loves to read Hindi-Urdu Literature & cinema.

Archis is a Senior Correspondent at BOOM, and covers issues related to technology and politics, along with writing fact-checks, and studying mis/disinformation. He has a bachelor's degree in political science from Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a master's degree in Media Studies (specialising in political communication), under the Erasmus Mundus Journalism Programme - a joint degree provided by Aarhus University of Denmark, and the University of Amsterdam. Prior to BOOM, Archis had worked as a freelance reporter for The Times of India, covering business news, and has also interned as a reporter for The Telegraph - ABP Group, covering local stories in Kolkata. His interests lie in sports - specifically running, cycling, and occasionally punching and kicking heavy bags - and he also likes to practice Vipassana meditation. His most enduring romance is with food - he loves to eat, as he loves to cook and feed others. Archis is also quite a geek and a nerd, and is obsessed with digital privacy, video games and science-fiction.

Adrija Bose is a Senior Editor at BOOM Live. She has worked across several media publications including Firstpost, HuffPost India and CNN-News18. Her reportage focussing on gender, politics, human rights, environment and the Internet culture has won her several awards. She has won three UN Laadli Awards for gender sensitivity in reporting, the 2019 RedInk Awards for her reporting on Meghalaya’s coal miners and the Polestar Award for her story on Haryana’s female footballers. She leads Decode, a vertical for BOOM where the focus is on the intersection between technology and people's lives. She commissions, edits and reports on polarisation, disinformation and human rights.

Divya Chandra is Producer, Workshops and Training at BOOM FactCheck. She conducts training sessions and LIVE workshops to teach the art of fact-checking. Previously, she was Correspondent-Fact Check at The Quint. She did her Masters in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune. When not fact-checking, you can find her at a cafe next door.

Sista is a fact checker and social media lead at BOOM Bangla. She has previously interned at DataLEADS with their fact-checking team. She has completed her Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Aliah University, Kolkata. Besides fact-checking, she loves to travel and dance.

Srijit Das is a fact-checker with BOOM. He is a software engineer and worked with the India Today's Fact Check team before joining BOOM. Besides investigation, Srijit loves to travel and read detective stories