He very recently launched a businesss news initiative, www.thecore.in as Editor. Previously, he was Founder-Editor in Chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hours business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008.

Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as Editor (New Media) with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or web platform. He also spent around five years each with CNBC-TV18 & The Economic Times.

He is a Fellow of The Aspen Institute, Colorado, a McNulty Prize Laureate 2018 & a winner of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leadership Awards for 2014.

Jency manages a newsroom of enterprising fact checkers who are striving to keep our social media and public space clear of misinformation and communally sensitive disinformation that can result in real-life implications. Jency is also a regular speaker at various national and international conferences, speaking about the importance of battling misinformation and the media's role in countering them with credible and factual news stories.

Before joining BOOM, Jency was the Senior Editor at Business Standard’s Digital vertical and played a very important role in synergising the print and web operations and scale up the newsroom’s contribution to the web between 2013 to 2016. Having started his career as a business correspondent at the national broadcaster Doordarshan, he worked on various beats covering stock markets, corporate and led reporting and desk teams as the Mumbai News Editor and National Editor across several news channels .

Her specialisation includes spotting and debunking fake images and viral fake videos. Karen is a former Reuters wires journalist and has covered the resources sector in the UK and the Indian stock market and private equity sector. She cut her teeth as a prime-time television producer doing business news shows.

Prior to this, he was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University. In 2018, he founded the Ekta News Coalition, a collaboration of newsrooms and fact-checkers. Venkatesh was also a Knight Fellow at the International Center for Journalists in 2017-18. In 2015, he was part of the editors' team that launched and built The Quint. For nine years, he was also the Senior Anchor at CNN-IBN. Venkatesh has been educated at Bangalore, Symbiosis and Oxford universities. He is a Bangalorean who is now based in New Delhi.

He was an integrating it across multiple media platforms and video editors and is responsible for developing a digital strategy. He is a media professional with over 15 years of experience, worked in media houses such as Network 18, ESPN- Star Sports.

At the helm of BOOM's tech division, he guides a dynamic team of developers and designers, ensuring excellence across all web-based products and technologies. Before joining our ranks, Hamid showcased his leadership as the Team Lead for Business Standard's digital edition, overseeing Web, UI, and Online Operations for over a decade. Additionally, his professional journey includes a valuable two-year association with CNBC.

She is a fact-checker and media literacy trainer; Swasti has worked in the mainstream media in the capacity of a senior correspondent and chief copy editor with publications including The Times of India, The Indian Express and NDTV.com. She has majorly covered films, education and city while her tenure with these organisations

she escapes into second-hand bookstores, looking for magic or a mystery

Her reportage focussing on gender, politics, human rights, environment and the Internet culture has won her several awards. She has won three UN Laadli Awards for gender sensitivity in reporting, the 2019 RedInk Awards for her reporting on Meghalaya’s coal miners and the Polestar Award for her story on Haryana’s female footballers.

He has a bachelor's degree in political science from Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a master's degree in Media Studies (specialising in political communication), under the Erasmus Mundus Journalism Programme - a joint degree provided by Aarhus University of Denmark, and the University of Amsterdam.

Prior to BOOM, Archis had worked as a freelance reporter for The Times of India, covering business news, and has also interned as a reporter for The Telegraph - ABP Group, covering local stories in Kolkata. His interests lie in sports - specifically running, cycling, and occasionally punching and kicking heavy bags - and he also likes to practice Vipassana meditation. His most enduring romance is with food - he loves to eat, as he loves to cook and feed others. Archis is also quite a geek and a nerd, and is obsessed with digital privacy, video games and science-fiction.

He and was a reporting intern at Times of India, Indian Express, and Mid-Day. He is a post-graduate diploma holder in journalism from St Paul’s Institute of Communication Education, Mumbai.

Apart from various online workshops in fact-checking, she has conducted several offline sessions for journalists and journalism students.

To create more awareness and educate the masses about the misinformation industry, she produces a weekly newsletter- Verified by BOOM wherein she discusses the fact-checking space and teaches tools and techniques to debunk false claims that you see online.

She is also one of the hosts of BOOM’s podcast: Media Buddhi A-Z.

Previously, she was Correspondent-Fact Check at The Quint where she was actively involved in debunking online misinformation. Apart from the regular debunks, she also ventured into several deep dives in the field of psychology of misinformation.

She did her Masters in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune and pursued Bachelor in Engineering from PESIT, Bengaluru. When not fact-checking, you can find her at a cafe next door.

She has worked across several digital newsrooms in various capacities. At BOOM, Rohini drives the news coverage in the form of explainers and general news.

She has completed her Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Aliah University, Kolkata. Besides fact-checking, she loves to travel and dance.

Originally from Mumbai, she is now based out of Delhi. Ritika is a writer, part-time dreamer & full-time K-drama addict.

A true Mumbaiite, Ritika graduated from Jai Hind College and completed her Masters from University of Westminster, London. Through her writing, she hopes to simplify the law, and decode the judiciary. Before joining BOOM, Ritika worked with several digital news portals, and cut her teeth with newspapers like DNA, and The Indian Express. Ritika started her career as a journalist, but found solace in photography. However, a decade later, she returned to the journalism where she found her true calling in writing stories. If not bingeing on k-dramas, you will find Ritika escaping the city and discovering the world.

Srijit Das is a fact-checker with BOOM. Besides investigation, Srijit loves to travel and read detective stories

She also works as Associate Producer for Workshops and Media Literacy training, heading BOOM projects such as, the Teen Fact-Checking Network and the North East Facts Network.

Previously, she has worked for CNN-Network18 as well as in gender sensitisation training and advocacy.

She did her Masters in Journalism from SOAS, University of London and pursued a Bachelor in Media Communications from Jindal School of Journalism and Communications. When not writing stories, you can find her buying kitchen and household paraphernalia.

Journalist by profession, writer by passion, Shefali has 10 Years of Experience in the field of journalism. During this tenure she has worked with several organisations of Print media and digital Media including Dainik Bhaskar Digital, Gaon Connection and Navbharat Times Digital.

She has done her Masters in Mass Communication and Political Science. She has an interest in Health, Women and Politics. She has done health related stories and video interviews during COVID-19, Human Angle and women oriented stories during elections. She has also worked with election special teams. She loves to read Hindi-Urdu Literature & cinema.

Rohit is a fact-checker with BOOMLIVE. He has previously worked in DD News and with Gaon Connection as a freelancer. He has done his post-graduate diploma in Hindi Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.