Sevanti Ninan

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Sevanti Ninan is an Indian journalist, columnist, researcher and media critic. [1] [2] [3] She is the founding editor of The Hoot, which was the first media watchdog in India. [4] Ninan was the recipient of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons in 1989, [5] and is a visiting scholar (fellowship) at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, an academic center associated with the University of Pennsylvania. [6] She is also the author of the book, Headlines from the Heartland which is described as the first in-depth study into the growth of the expanding Hindi language newspaper industry in India. [7] [8]

Ninan is a regular columnist at The Telegraph and has formerly been a columnist at several major newspapers including The Hindu , The Indian Express and Mint, the financial newspaper founded by The Wall Street Journal and Hindustan Times. [9] She began her career in journalism at the Hindustan Times and subsequently became a correspondent and later an editor with The Indian Express. [6] In 2001, she founded The Hoot as a media watchdog which was re-configured into an archive and media research resource around 2018. [4]

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