In this session at The Media Rumble 2019, Samir Saran, President of Observer Research Foundation (ORF), is in conversation with Shivnath Thukral, Public Policy Director, India & South Asia at Facebook, Berges Y Malu, Head of Public Policy and Policy Communications at ShareChat, Surabhi Malik, Program Director with Internews and Google News Initiative India Training Network, and Nalin Mehta, Executive Editor of TOI-Online. They discuss the epidemic of “fake news” and how it threatens to destroy the credibility of news.
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Nalin Mehta
Professor Nalin Mehta is Dean, School of Modern Media, UPES; Advisor, Global University Systems and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University Singapore. He is an award-winning social scientist, journalist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major Indian media companies; international financing institutions like the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (ANU, La Trobe University), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (IIM Bangalore, Shiv Nadar University).