Career paths leading from newsrooms to product management have become more common — and it can be a steep learning curve. Learn about this new way of developing your career in journalism. Moderated...
Upasna Gautam
Upasna Gautam is a Senior Platform Product Manager at CNN, where she develops the content management technology that delivers breaking news to the world. Upasna has been working in the tech industry for the last 15 years and has been an integral part of building technical, data-informed solutions for brands such as Ford Motor Company, Valvoline, PCMag, Mashable, Mars Corporation, and Kimberly-Clark. Upasna also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors at the News Product Alliance, is a freelance journalist at CNN, and an angel investor.
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Journalists are charged to "seek the truth and report it" but also to "minimize harm" to the communities we serve. On news product teams, the work we do can seem an abstract distance from those concer...
