How often have we heard that journalism is a young person's game? Why does our industry frequently make it clear it doesn't welcome older employees? For a newsroom to be truly representative of societ...
Ritu Kapur
Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and CEO of The Quint, an English and Hindi language Indian news website launched in 2015. She has driven digital innovation at Quintillion Media from redesigning sites, to starting the innovation lab, to launching a health vertical FIT to driving the fight against misinformation with WebQoof.
Ritu Kapur has also strived to provide multiple platforms for free speech. One such platform is Talking Stalking, where The Quint collaborated with senior advocate Kamini Jaiswal and Member of Parliament Dr Shashi Tharoor to submit a bill in Parliament to make stalking a non-bailable offence. Others include The Quint's multilingual campaign BOL, and its citizen journalism initiative My Report.
She is on the advisory board of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute Of Journalism, the World Editor's Forum at WAN-IFRA and Future News Worldwide. Ritu Kapur has been recognized by Outlook Business as Woman of Worth 2017 - The Newsmaker.
Events IJF 2020
What is it like for fact-checkers and journalists to run a WhatsApp tipline in countries where WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app? Newsrooms and fact-checking initiatives in India and Brazil h...
Journalism Innovation Project: rebooting audience engagement amidst 'platform capture' and online toxicity
First lessons from the Journalism Innovation Project: how to innovate under fire and avoid ‘shiny things syndrome’. This panel will mark the publication of the second Journalism Innovation Projec...
Journalism today is in many ways better than it ever was, but the funding models that support it are existentially threatened. With traditional sources of revenue from print and broadcast in inevitabl...
Much has been said about women as journalists and media managers, about their being victims, about a lack of opportunity, about their being kept under glass ceilings, being paid less, given less oppor...
Freedom after expression: censorship of the press and violence against journalists in India and Pakistan
Growing levels of scrutiny, pressure, and intimidation tactics on the press in both India and Pakistan have introduced a disturbing era of undeclared censorship from state and non-state actors in both...
