H R Venkatesh is Director, Training and Research. In addition, he developed and leads Media Buddhi, the media literacy initiative at BOOM. Prior to this, he was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. In 2018, he founded the Ekta News Coalition, a collaboration of newsrooms and fact-checkers. Venkatesh was also a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists in 2017-18. In 2015, he was part of the editors' team that launched and built The Quint. For nine years, he was also the Senior Anchor at CNN-IBN. Venkatesh has been educated at Bangalore, Symbiosis and Oxford universities. He is a Bangalorean who is now based in New Delhi.
Media Buddhi A-Z, A Podcast On All Things Media Literacy And Politics
- By H R Venkatesh | 25 March 2022 3:28 PM GMT
How Private Is My VPN?
- By Alfred Ng, The Markup | 19 Aug 2021 6:58 AM GMT
Meghan And Harry: Why Couple's Fear Of British Tabloids Is Justified
- By H R Venkatesh | 9 March 2021 10:26 AM GMT
Clubhouse: 7 Questions About The App That You Were Afraid To Ask, Answered
- By H R Venkatesh | 12 Feb 2021 1:40 PM GMT
In 2021, Can We Mix Up Our Media Diet? | Watch Video
- By H R Venkatesh | 7 Jan 2021 9:54 AM GMT
The Best Of Indian Journalism 2020 | Watch Video
- By H R Venkatesh | 27 Dec 2020 9:50 AM GMT
A Lament For Mumbai Mirror And The Correspondent
- By H R Venkatesh | 13 Dec 2020 9:48 AM GMT
Trolls Target Individuals But They Also Destroy The Public Square | Watch Video
- By H R Venkatesh | 10 Dec 2020 5:36 AM GMT
How (And Why) We Made The Narasimha Video | Watch Video
- By H R Venkatesh | 7 Dec 2020 5:06 AM GMT
The Media Buddhi Video Series Is Here | Watch Video
- By H R Venkatesh | 29 Nov 2020 9:12 AM GMT
What about Scroll, The Quint, The Wire and The News Minute?
- By H R Venkatesh | 25 Nov 2020 4:21 PM GMT
Republic TV, FB, WhatsApp, YouTube: What Do They Have in Common?
- By H R Venkatesh | 25 Nov 2020 4:20 PM GMT
The Most Important Film You'll Watch. Probably.
- By H R Venkatesh | 25 Nov 2020 1:48 AM GMT
What Sort Of Journalist Are You? (And What Sort Do We Need?)
- By H R Venkatesh | 25 Nov 2020 1:32 AM GMT
Propaganda, Opinion, News, Advertising: Can You Tell Them Apart?
- By H R Venkatesh | 25 Nov 2020 12:59 AM GMT
How Can We Fix Polarization?
- By H R Venkatesh | 24 Nov 2020 6:15 AM GMT