H R Venkatesh

H R Venkatesh is director, training and research, at the fact-checking organisation BOOM Live, where he also runs the media literacy initiative Media Buddhi. His work focuses on how news organisations can fight disinformation, bias and polarisation in communities in South Asia. He is a former John S. Knight Fellow in journalism at Stanford University and a former ICFJ Knight Fellow. Venkatesh also founded Ekta News Coalition, a collaboration of news organisations in India. He was a founding editor at The Quint and senior anchor at CNN-IBN. He tweets @hrvenkatesh.