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      Govindraj Ethiraj

      Founder
      Govindraj Ethiraj is a television & print journalist and also Founder of IndiaSpend & FactChecker.in, data Read more

      Govindraj Ethiraj

      Television & print journalist

      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.

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      Jency Jacob

      Managing Editor
      Jency Jacob is the Managing Editor of BOOM and has worked with some of the top television and print networks in the country. Read more

      Jency Jacob

      Managing & Editor of BOOM

      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 .

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      Karen Rebelo

      Deputy Editor
      Karen Rebelo is the Deputy Editor of BOOM and works as an investigative reporter, factchecker and a copy-editor. Read more

      Karen Rebelo

      Television & print journalist

      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.

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      H R Venkatesh

      Director, Training and Research
      H R Venkatesh is Director, Training and Research. In addition, he developed and leads Media Buddhi, the media literacy at BOOM. Read more

      H R Venkatesh

      Director, Training and Research

      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.

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      Naveen Nair

      Head-Operations
      Naveen Nair is Head-Operations at BOOM, overseeing production and execution of daily shows and videos He leads a team of producers, video journalists Read more

      Naveen Nair

      Head-Operations

      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.

      Hamid

      Product Head
      Abdul Hamid Khan (Hamid) is Product Head at BOOM, has over 14 years of professional experience in managing websites. Read more

      Abdul Hamid Khan (Hamid)

      Product Head

      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.

      Swasti Chatterjee

      News editor (East)
      Swasti Chatterjee is BOOM’s News Editor (East) and project coordinator of the two international verticals of BOOM in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Yangon (Myanmar). Read more

      Swasti Chatterjee

      Fact Checker and the Deputy News Editort

      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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      Nivedita Niranjankumar

      News Editor (South)
      Nivedita Niranjankumar is a fact checker at BOOM and works to stop the spread .When not at work Read more

      Nivedita Niranjankumar

      Fact Checker

      she escapes into second-hand bookstores, looking for magic or a mystery

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      Adrija Bose

      Senior Editor
      Adrija Bose is a Senior Editor at BOOM Live. She has worked across several media publications including Firstpost, HuffPost India and CNN-News18.Read more

      Adrija Bose

      Senior Editor

      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.

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      Archis

      Senior Correspondent - Data and Policy
      Archis is a Senior Correspondent at BOOM, and covers issues related to technology and politics, along with writing fact-checks, and studying mis/disinformation. Read more

      Archis

      Fact Checker and Reporter

      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.

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      Mohammed Kudrati

      Senior Correspondant, Data and Finance
      Mohammed Kudrati is a post-graduate in economics from the University of Mumbai. Read more

      Mohammed Kudrati

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

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      Anmol Alphonso

      Senior FactChecker
      Anmol Alphonso is a fact-checker with BOOM and He has previously interned at IndiaSpend as a fact-checkerRead more

      Anmol Alphonso

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Divya Chandra

      Producer, Workshops and Training
      Divya Chandra is Producer, Workshops and Training at BOOM FactCheck. She conducts training sessions and LIVE workshops to teach the art of fact-checking.Read more

      Divya Chandra

      Producer, Workshops and Training

      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.

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      Rohini Chatterji

      Senior Editor-Desk
      Rohini Chatterji is Senior Editor-Desk at BOOM and has over 11 years of experience in journalism. Read more

      Rohini Chatterji

      Senior Editor-Desk

      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.

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      Sk Badiruddin

      Fact Checker
      Sk Badiruddin is a Kolkata-based journalist and fact-checking staff at Boom's Bangla desk since 2019.Read more

      Sk Badiruddin

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Sista Mukherjee

      Fact Checker
      Sista Mukherjee is a fact checker and social media lead at BOOM Bangla.She has previously interned at DataLEADS . Read more

      Sista Mukherjee

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Ritika Jain

      Fact Checker
      After an almost decade-long career as a photojournalist, Ritika returned to the fold as a journalist and now covers the Indian judiciary and all that it entails.Read more

      Srijit Das

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Mohammed Salman

      Fact Checker
      Mohammed Salman is a fact-checker at BOOM. He specialises in spotting and debunking mis/disinformation. Read more

      Mohammed Salman

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Sujith A

      Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Researcher
      He is an ex-Certified Ethical Hacker who got into OSINT because of keen interest in investigations and his love for Sherlock Holmes. Read more

      Sujith A

      Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Researcher

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

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      Srijit Das

      Fact Checker
      He is a software engineer and worked with the India Today's Fact Check team before joining BOOM. Read more

      Srijit Das

      Fact Checker

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

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      Runjay Kumar

      Fact Checker
      Runjay has completed PGDM in Hindi Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication New Delhi. Read more

      Runjay Kumar

      Fact Checker

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

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      Sachin Baghel

      Fact Checker
      Sachin has a post graduate degree in Political Science from University of Delhi & PG Diploma in Journalism from IIMC, New Delhi. Read more

      Sachin Baghel

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Sana Fazili

      Fact Checker
      Sana Fazili is a Desk Writer at BOOM and works for the daily news coverage here. Read more

      Sachin Baghel

      Fact Checker

      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.

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      Television & print journalist

      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.

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      Branding

      Television & print journalist

      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.

      Branding

      Television & print journalist

      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.

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