Comment is free, facts are sacred wasted. The world is now drowning in opinions. Facts, meanwhile, are not having a good time. They are expensive and time-consuming to establish - and there is growin...
Ritu Kapur
Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and managing director of Quint Digital Limited which runs The Quint, an independent news site in India. She has strived to provide multiple platforms for free speech like The Quint's citizen journalism initiative "My Report” and The Quint’s fact check initiative, “WebQoof”. The Quint has won several awards including the Best News Website award, two years running at the WAN-IFRA South Asian Digital Media Awards.
Ritu spent over two decades in broadcast as one of the founders of Network 18, where she was the Features Editor at CNN IBN and led programming on History TV18, before she exited to launch The Quint.
She is on the advisory boards of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the World Editor's Forum at WAN IFRA and International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).
Events IJF 2025
Enemy of the people? The role of the media in an era of rising authoritarianism
The media plays a critical role in upholding democracy: presenting facts, promoting civic engagement and holding power to account. Despite journalists’ best efforts, we continue to see an alarming t...
With billions heading to the polls this year, the stakes for global democracies are substantial. Generative AI advances and broad accessibility are already reshaping sectors with exponential growth ex...
It’s being called “The Year of Democracy” as about a third of the world votes for their national leaders in 2024. Politicians have always spun their lines but elections seem to get more complex ...
AI has become a pivotal tool in news and journalism. News organisations around the world have harnessed traditional and generative AI to analyse large datasets, automate routine tasks, personalise new...
Newsrooms are inundated with metrics for reach, attention, and engagement – but how do they assess the social impact of their journalism? This panel, proposed by the World Editors Forum, will go bey...
In June 2022 Andras Petho wrote an article for Nieman Reports entitled I witnessed Orbán crack down on Hungary’s free press. Here’s my advice to journalists facing similar threats about his exper...
Journalism Innovation Project: rebooting audience engagement amidst 'platform capture' and online toxicity
Dramatic shifts in the media landscape over the past two decades — including the advent of social media, the rise of participatory audiences, and what the Journalism Innovation Project calls “plat...
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...
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...
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...
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