Journalism and fact check initiatives. He also anchors seasonal shows on Indian news television – recent ones being Aegons of Business on BloombergQuint and `Policy Watch’ on public service broadcaster Rajya Sabha or RS TV. Previously, he was Founder-Editor in Chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hours business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as Editor (New Media) with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or web platform.

He also spent around five years each with CNBC-TV18 & The Economic Times. He is a Fellow of The Aspen Institute, Colorado, a McNulty Prize Laureate 2018 & a winner of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leadership Awards for 2014.

Jency manages a newsroom of enterprising fact checkers who are striving to keep our social media and public space clear of misinformation and communally sensitive disinformation that can result in real-life implications. Jency is also a regular speaker at various national and international conferences, speaking about the importance of battling misinformation and the media's role in countering them with credible and factual news stories.

Before joining BOOM, Jency was the Senior Editor at Business Standard’s Digital vertical and played a very important role in synergising the print and web operations and scale up the newsroom’s contribution to the web between 2013 to 2016. Having started his career as a business correspondent at the national broadcaster Doordarshan, he worked on various beats covering stock markets, corporate and led reporting and desk teams as the Mumbai News Editor and National Editor across several news channels .

Her specialisation includes spotting and debunking fake images and viral fake videos. Karen is a former Reuters wires journalist and has covered the resources sector in the UK and the Indian stock market and private equity sector. She cut her teeth as a prime-time television producer doing business news shows.

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.

He was an integrating it across multiple media platforms and video editors and is responsible for developing a digital strategy. He is a media professional with over 15 years of experience, worked in media houses such as Network 18, ESPN- Star Sports.

He leads a team of developers, design team and oversees all product and tech requirements across Web Platforms. Prior to joining us, Hamid was Team Lead at Business Standard digital edition for over a decade, looking after Web, UI as well as Online Ops. Before Business Standard, Hamid worked with CNBC for 2 years.

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

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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.

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.

His specialisations include data analysis and political economy and he previously catered to the computational data analytical requirements of US-based pharmaceutical clients

He 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.

Apart from various online workshops in fact-checking, she has conducted several offline sessions for journalists and journalism students.

To create more awareness and educate the masses about the misinformation industry, she produces a weekly newsletter- Verified by BOOM wherein she discusses the fact-checking space and teaches tools and techniques to debunk false claims that you see online.

She is also one of the hosts of BOOM’s podcast: Media Buddhi A-Z.

Previously, she was Correspondent-Fact Check at The Quint where she was actively involved in debunking online misinformation. Apart from the regular debunks, she also ventured into several deep dives in the field of psychology of misinformation.

She did her Masters in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune and pursued Bachelor in Engineering from PESIT, Bengaluru. When not fact-checking, you can find her at a cafe next door.

She has worked across several digital newsrooms in various capacities. At BOOM, Rohini drives the news coverage in the form of explainers and general news.

Earlier, he was a translator for TRID India, news desk assistant of Onkar News, science news contributor for AIR Kolkata, and culture writer for a small scale newspaper. You can suggest him longreads about books, movies, culture, new media, or socio-political affairs; tools for open source investigation.

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.

Originally from Mumbai, she is now based out of Delhi. Ritika is a writer, part-time dreamer & full-time K-drama addict.

A true Mumbaiite, Ritika graduated from Jai Hind College and completed her Masters from University of Westminster, London. Through her writing, she hopes to simplify the law, and decode the judiciary. Before joining BOOM, Ritika worked with several digital news portals, and cut her teeth with newspapers like DNA, and The Indian Express. Ritika started her career as a journalist, but found solace in photography. However, a decade later, she returned to the journalism where she found her true calling in writing stories. If not bingeing on k-dramas, you will find Ritika escaping the city and discovering the world.

He has studied journalism from IIMC, Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia. When not at work, you can find him discussing contemporary issues, politics, sports and cinema at the chai tapri near you.

Sujith A works as an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Researcher at BOOM. Scholar/Digital Sherlock at DFRLab’s 360/Digital Sherlocks Program Fall 2021.

Srijit Das is a fact-checker with BOOM. Besides investigation, Srijit loves to travel and read detective stories

Runjay Kumar is a fact checker with BOOM Hindi. He has previously worked with Indian Express group as a News Writer and Inshorts.

Sachin Baghel is a fact checker with BOOM. Sachin has previously worked with Prasar Bharti and Jansatta, also has a sharp eye for political, economic disparity, communal & social justice related happenings in India and around the world.

She writes explainers and breaking news stories as they happen. She started her career in one of the busiest newsrooms in the country. After a task of over three years, she decided to tread into the territory of well-researched news put in context. News is beyond 5W1H, after all.