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...
Ritu Kapur
Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and managing director of Quint Digital Media 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, together with Talking Stalking – a campaign to change the laws to make stalking a non-bailable offence and Webqoof, The Quint’s fact check initiative.
Ritu spent over two decades in broadcast as the founder of Network 18 where she won awards for a docudrama series Bhanwar and for The Citizen Journalist show among others. At Network 18 she was the Features Editor at CNN IBN and also led programming on History TV 18, before she exited to launch The Quint.
She is on the advisory board of Oxford University’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the World Editor's Forum at WAN IFRA and Future News Worldwide.
Eventi IJF 2024
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 ...
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...
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...
Quante volte abbiamo sentito che il giornalismo è roba per giovani? Perché il settore sempre più spesso mette in chiaro di non impiegare i più anziani? Perché una redazione sia davvero rappresent...
Prime lezioni dal Journalism Innovation Project: come innovare sotto pressione ed evitare la "Shiny Objects Syndrome". Il panel segnerà la pubblicazione del secondo rapporto sul Journalism Innovat...
Il giornalismo oggi è per molti aspetti migliore di quanto non sia mai stato, ma i modelli di finanziamento che lo sostengono sono minacciati strutturalmente. Con le tradizionali fonti di entrata in ...
Si è parlato molto delle donne come giornalisti e dirigenti nei media, del loro essere vittime, di una mancanza di opportunità, del loro essere tenute sotto campane di vetro, di essere pagate di men...
I crescenti livelli di controllo, pressione e le tattiche intimidatorie verso la stampa in India e Pakistan hanno prodotto un'epoca inquietante di censura non dichiarata da parte di figure statali e n...
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