RECOMMENDATIONS
“I had the opportunity to work with Lakshmi for a bit more than two years on the JournalismAI project, as her colleague and direct manager. She is a highly motivated professional, a hard worker, and an excellent team player.
Lakshmi started out as community coordinator and transitioned to a programme manager role midway through our collaboration, leading the pioneering JournalismAI Fellowship Programme. She understands very well the challenges and the opportunities at the intersection of journalism and technology, and has the ability to facilitate collaborative work with empathy and effectiveness.In both roles, Lakshmi showed consistent effort, attention to detail, and eagerness to learn and grow her skills.
She’s an excellent communicator and a stabilising force for the whole team with her kind and positive attitude.I highly recommend working with Lakshmi, and I’m sure she will be successful in whatever she sets her mind to do! ”
WORK
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I manage and run daily operations for an international journalism collaboration, called the JournalismAI Fellowship, which brings together technologists and journalists from across the world to responsibly use AI to enhance journalism.
Skills: Program design, implementation, management | Stakeholder communication and management | Outreach and distribution | Project coordination
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I have reported on various beats: technology and startups, real estate and the environment for NDTV and AI in journalism.
Skills: News gathering, interviewing, news writing and scripting, videography
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I started my career with CNBC in Mumbai, where I helped produce two primetime, award-winning daily business news shows.
Skills: Script writing, news production from the production control room
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I worked on a yearlong project exploring climate justice issues in Far Rockaway, New York City, in 2019. I used ethnographic interviewing techniques, listening exercises and other engagement reporting methodologies to conduct this.
Apart from this, I also worked on social media engagement and strategic communications for News Product Alliance in 2022.
Skills: Audience enagagement, community engagement, engagement reporting, Google Analytics
“I worked with Lakshmi for over eight months, during which she helped establish News Product Alliance’s brand on social media, and produced a monthly newsletter for our global community. Lakshmi is a dedicated and responsible communications professional, she is sharp and attentive to context. Would definitely work with her again.”