Sevanti Ninan

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 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]