Content from non-“news” venues is increasingly attracting significant audiences, especially around areas such as business and economics, which is also a critical topic for mainstream media. Given ...
Raju Narisetti
Raju Narisetti’s current role as Leader, Global Publishing at McKinsey & Company is the latest in a 32-year global career in media and publishing, during which he has created, reimagined and managed major media organizations in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as being on the frontlines of digital transformation challenges and new ventures in publishing. Raju worked as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal where, over 14 years, he went from a Reporting Intern to be the Editor of WSJ Europe, and later Managing Editor, Digital, of the global WSJ, and part of a team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for 9/11 coverage. At The Washington Post, Raju was the Managing Editor who helped start and shape the newspaper's print/digital transformation. At both WSJ and Washington Post, Raju was the youngest and first person of color on their mastheads.
Raju is also the founder of Mint, India's business news brand. After his journalism stint, as a media business executive, he was Senior Vice President of Strategy for News Corp, and later CEO of the Gizmodo Media Group, which then encompassed a group of digital journalism sites that included Gizmodo, The Onion, Jezebel, DeadSpin, Lifehacker, and The Root. Prior to joining McKinsey in 2020, he was a journalism educator, leading the Knight Bagehot Fellowships in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University, where he also was a Professor of Professional Practice at the School of Journalism.
An alum of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader cohort, Raju is also a Board Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, which oversees and supports the global Wikimedia platform, and where he heads the Talent & Culture Committee.
How we built it: the story of a for-profit, values-driven network with diversified revenues
In conversation with S. Mitra Kalita and Sara Lomax, the founders of URL Media, which boasts 16 community news outlets owned and run by Black and Brown journalists. In two years, URL Media has grown i...
Journalism and the future of the internet: help the UN draft a new international standard for a free and open worldwide web
The future of journalism is inextricably bound up with the wider Internet ecosystem. UNESCO, the UN agency with primary responsibility for media freedom and journalists' safety, is consulting worldwid...
It does appear that Facebook has fallen completely out of love with the news business. Is it us? Is it them? Is it something we said? Does it matter? This panel will explore our troubled romance with ...
Advertising has historically accounted for a large part of the business of news. But as legacy media platforms decline, digital media grow more important, and platform companies like Facebook and Goog...
Help define the moral imperatives that should be guiding media and platforms' decisions
Both platforms and media helped get us into the mess we are in -- and before we can expect them to get us out we need to help them write the principles that should guide their decisions on product des...
2015 saw a spate of women added to the roster of top editors in global journalism. One veteran is joined by three newcomers in a no-holds-barred conversation on how and why diversity at the very top...
Platformed publishing? The evolving relationship between search engines, social media, and news media
Search engines, social media sites, and messaging apps accounts for a larger and larger share of online news use, presenting news organizations with new opportunities and challenges. The last year h...
Challenged by a radically new scenario and undermined by nimble new competitors, mainstream media is hard at it trying to weather the digital revolution. Put bluntly, is there any place in the futur...
The fight for survival – in the journalism jungle at least - is very much still on. The single hats-off winning business model has yet to be found - assuming there is one. But there is certainly n...
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For the last few years the rise of data journalism has generated some hope that newsrooms could make use of new technologies for better reporting. But what about enabling newsrooms to create new servi...
From the black box atmosphere of the boardroom to political regimes in upheaval, complex stories that cross boarders, take place in inaccessible places, and are fast paced throw up real challenges. Th...
Video, verification, value: why News Corp's purchase of Storyful deserves your attention
For more information, see Craig Silverman's article entitled Video, verification, value: why News Corp's purchase of Storyful deserves your attention
A broad economic crisis, a media advertising crisis, a once-in-a-lifetime structural crisis; from “Crisis, what crisis?” to “Crisis! Crisis! Crisis!” Result: the media industry is still lookin...
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