Planet Splice

India

Mili Semlani is the community manager for Planet Splice, the Splice community on Slack. As a new media professional, she has led digital transformation at newsrooms in India, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore. She now spends most of her time seeding connections and nurturing impactful communities in the media development world. She is also managing and building the climateXchange community.

ICFJ Knight Fellow

India

Nikita Roy is a data scientist, journalist, and Harvard-recognised AI futurist. She is currently a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists, focusing on AI literacy in the news industry. She leads the AI Journalism Lab and serves on the AI advisory board at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Nikita is also the host of the globally acclaimed Newsroom Robots podcast incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs. It has ranked among the top technology podcasts in over 30 countries on Apple Podcasts.

Rest of World

India

Rina Chandran is a deputy editor at Rest of World. Prior to that, she was Asia tech correspondent at the Thomson Reuters Foundation's Context. Rina was a business journalist for more than a dozen years in India, Singapore, and New York, with Reuters News, Bloomberg and the Financial Times. She is based in Bangkok.

Reframing Disability

India

Priti Salian is an independent Indian journalist and the author of Reframing Disability, a fortnightly newsletter simplifying disability inclusion for content creators. Her work focuses on the intersections of disability, gender, global health and development, with reporting from India, Germany, and Uganda for outlets such as The Guardian, BBC, The BMJ, and The Lancet. As an accredited media trainer, Priti specialises in gender equality, diversity and inclusion, and solutions journalism. In 2022, she was a fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, where she researched disability inclusion in India’s newsrooms and media coverage.

Scroll

India

Sannuta Raghu heads Scroll.in's AI Lab for News and Journalism. The lab is building Factivo, a versioning tool to repurpose news articles according to the information needs of users. Since 2016, she has built, lead, and scaled Scroll's digital video newsroom, creating news+ products for platforms with between 6 million and 200 million users. She is an ICFJ Knight Fellow and an incoming Reuters Institute Journalism Fellow.