Talk by Karnika Kohli, Audience editor at Scroll.in on What I do as the audience editor in the Scroll newsroom

The Center for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP)

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB)

organized a talk titled

What I do as the audience editor in the Scroll newsroom

Karnika Kohli

Audience Editor, Scroll.in

3:30 pm on 09 April, 2019 (Tuesday)

Venue: Room 310, IIITB campus

26/C, Electronic City, Hosur Road, Bangalore

About the talk:

1) Digital media (Its reach and how it opens up so many new avenues)

2) Social media (How it can be used to reach out to more people, for news gathering, etc)

3) Media business model and why media literacy is important

Speaker Bio: Karnika Kohli is the audience editor at Scroll.in. She was previously with TheWire.in, where she led the social media desk and worked on campaigns to raise funding and was part of the team that organised events. Her main focus at Scroll.in is on amplifying the reach of their work and building an engaged audience by bringing data, insights and strategies to the newsroom. She has also worked with the Times of India and NewsX.

CITAPP at IIIT Bangalore is an interdisciplinary think-tank set-up to focus on the policy challenges and the organizational demands made by technological innovation. Of particular interest to the Centre is how technological advances, along with institutional changes that harness the legitimacy and the powers of bureaucracies and market, address the needs of underserved communities.