Pratyush Ranjan has more than 19 years of experience in the digital media industry. His key expertise areas are Fact Checking, Digital &
Multimedia Content Management (Hindi & English), Newsroom and Editorial Process Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Writing, Editing,
Search Engine, and Social Media Optimisation, Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in newsrooms, etc.
Pratyush has been a certified fact checker and trainer at Google News Initiative’s India Training Network since 2018. He has been very active in
conducting fact-check training sessions and trained thousands of people across the country in fact-checking and data verification.
He was part of a prestigious 6-month-long ‘JournalismAI’ global project (2020) for a comprehensive study of the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
in the future of Journalism. It is a project of POLIS – the journalism think-tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Pratyush has won Silver Award at the South Asian Digital Media Awards under the Best Covid-19 Project category for his exclusive interviews with
India’s top medical experts on the Pandemic and Covid Misinfodemic. He conducted the series in collaboration with UNICEF India and the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare (Government of India) during the second wave of Covid-19 in India to spread health awareness.
He has received a certificate in Data Journalism from the East-West Center and two certificates in countering disinformation from CRDF-Global.
Pratyush also participated in the 6-month-long Newsroom Leadership programme by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
The Google News Initiative network supported the programme. He is highly passionate about using digital tools for storytelling in an immersive
design and using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in content planning, production & distribution in the newsroom.