May 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Imagine a 2,000-word traditional article for core, loyal users as 'raw material' - how might we adapt this to a form (think decision tree, calculator, faqs or listicle, for example) that helps new or casual users find what they want most, and become more engaged users?
• Workng on how we could bring formats, user behaviour and machine learning together to serve audiences a net-positive news experience.

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

• Scroll’s AI Lab is currently building Factivo 2.0, a text-to-interface versioning tool using a news article as 'raw material'. We've tested feasibility for news article-to-calculator and news article-to-context slider.
• We are also productising Factivo 1.0, a URL-to-mp4 tool, which creates accurate videos from news articles in minutes.
• Factivo can create and automate static articles into dynamic vertical videos.
• Factivo can revitalise evergreens and news+ articles for younger audiences.
• Factivo can reach audiences in different formats and major world languages.
• Our POCs and tools in early development include a repository-linked image tagger, a style guide-based compliance checker and corrector, and two LLM-based research tools, which allow for natural language querying of Scroll’s award winning journalism as well as large datasets and documents from credible government sources.
• Scroll’s editorial team is also conducting experiments to test for accuracy on summarisations, SEO, multi-language translations and bias detection.

Mar 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 1 mo

• - Built and lead Scroll.in's award-winning digital video newsroom.

Apr 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Remote

May 2015 – Feb 2016 · 9 mos · Mumbai/Delhi

• Scripted and produced stories for Veer, a campaign to improve access and employability for people with disability in India, broadcast on CNN-IBN, IBN7, IBN Lokmat and IBNLive.com.
• Conceptualized, led, scripted and post-produced 'Assured India', a docu-feature on the evolution of life insurance and its role in financial inclusion in India broadcast in September 2015 on CNN-IBN, CNBC-TV18 and History-TV18.
• Produced, directed and scripted stories of ICT innovations in India for 'Networked India'​, a digital and television series broadcast from June – August 2015.
• Reported, field-produced and scripted for 'Landlocked', a half-hour analytical news feature on the impact of the Land Acquisition Bill on farmers in the Marathwada region of India telecast in May 2015.

Aug 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai/Delhi

• As Series Editor, conceptualised and led editorial content for Let's Talk Health, a 13-part public health awareness campaign on CNN-IBN.
• Reported from Mumbai for #NoCountryForWomen, a series of undercover news reports exploring the reactions towards a lone woman 'loitering' in public spaces for CNN-IBN, as part of the coverage on ground realities post the Nirbhaya rape case in December 2012.
• Reported, field-produced and scripted 'Missing'​, a half-hour analytical news feature with first-hand accounts from India's missing children.
• Produced and directed 'The Brave: Param Vir Chakra Heroes'​ for CNN-IBN, an Independence Day special programme featuring stories of bravery of the Param Vir Chakra (India's highest military honour) awardees.
• Produced 'Experiments with Big Ideas'​ and 'India Back on Track'​, television projects of the Think India Foundation presenting urgent policy suggestions to put India on a path of high growth.
• Produced 'Change India: An Agenda for the Next PM'​, a solutions-based public-policy discussion in English and Hindi on subjects like Corruption, Education, Health & Sanitation, Infrastructure & Urbanisation and Foreign Policy among others, simulcast in English & Hindi on CNN-IBN, CNBC-TV18, CNBC-Awaaz, IBN7, News18 and all regional ETV channels.
• As Series Editor for 'Innovating for a Better tomorrow', a 7-part series on trendsetting social and business innovators telecast on CNN-IBN and CNBC-TV18, oversaw all editorial content on the series.
• Produced, directed and scripted Plan-F, a 13-part series on Personal Finance for CNBC-TV18.

Jun 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Produced and directed weekly half-hour interviews with thought-leaders on policy, politics, art, literature and culture.
• Managed every aspect of program-output for 62 episodes - Monitoring news 24X7, Persuading a potential interviewee, Content, Standardizing graphics & production elements for output, Location Scouting, Planning and Execution of On-field production and Post-production.
• Persuaded and featured some of the most influential minds in Indian politics, like Omar Abdullah (Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir, immediately after the death of a top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander), Shashi Tharoor (Former Union Minister of State for HRD and former UN Under-secretary General, after the UNSC vote on military intervention in Syria), Arvind Kejriwal (AntiCorruption Crusader and Delhi Chief Minister), PA Sangma (2012 Presidential Candidate), RR Patil (Home Minister of Maharashtra, a day after Mumbai Terrorist attack convict Ajmal Kasab was hanged to death) and Tarun Gogoi (Assam Chief Minister, after the communal clashes in Assam that killed 77 people and displaced millions) among others.
• Launched, produced and directed 'The A List', a half-hour interview programme featuring Bollywood filmstars, authors and sports personalities to understand their craft.
• Reported and produced news features for Storyboard, a marketing and communications magazine show on CNBC-TV18.

Feb 2010 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Noida Area, India

• Produced prime-time news bulletins.
• Scripted and edited television voiceovers and news packages for at least 8 bulletins every day.
• Produced over 500 news packages for daily news including the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Libya, the Occupy Wall Street protests, the Japanese Tsunami and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear disaster, South Sudan's referendum, India's Anti-Corruption protests of 2011 and President Obama's visit to India among many others.

Jan 2008 – Apr 2008 · 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Commissioned to write news reports and features for The Gate Post, a 6-weekly community-development newspaper in London. NDC is a regeneration programme that pushes for community-led development in London's most impoverished neighbourhoods. The Gate Post is its voice and mirror.
• With 7 by-lines, published 15 articles in 12 weeks on community regeneration.
• Extensively researched the local community for story ideas – visited residents' homes, participated in community development get-togethers, open days & field days and local events.