Ritu Kapur

Ritu Kapur is co-founder and Managing Director of Quint Digital Limited, which runs The Quint, an independent news platform in India. She has championed platforms for free speech and public participation, including The Quint's citizen journalism initiative "My Report" and its fact-checking initiative, Webqoof. Under her leadership, The Quint has won several awards, including Best News Website at the WAN-IFRA South Asian Digital Media Awards for two consecutive years. Ritu spent over two decades in broadcast journalism as one of the founders of Network18, where she served as Features Editor at CNN-IBN and led programming at History TV18, before leaving to launch The Quint. She serves on the advisory boards of the World Editors Forum at WAN-IFRA, the International News Media Association as well as that of the International Fact Checking Network .