Ritu Kapur

Ritu Kapur is a member of the Reuters Institute's Advisory Board. 

Ritu Kapur is the co-founder and managing director of Quint Digital Limited, The Quint, an independent news platform in India. She has overseen initiatives such as My Report, a citizen journalism platform, and WebQoof, a fact-checking service. The Quint has received recognition, including the Best News Website award at the WAN-IFRA South Asian Digital Media Awards for two consecutive years.

Before her current role, Ritu spent over two decades in broadcast journalism. She was a founding member of Network18, served as the Features Editor at CNN IBN, and led programming at History TV18. She also sits on advisory boards for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the World Editors Forum at WAN-IFRA, and the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN).