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Shefali Srivastava
Journalist by profession, writer by passion, Shefali has 10 Years of Experience in the field of journalism. During this tenure she has worked with several organisations of Print media and digital Media including Dainik Bhaskar Digital, Gaon Connection and Navbharat Times Digital. She has done her Masters in Mass Communication and Political Science. She has an interest in Health, Women and Politics. She has done health related stories and video interviews during COVID-19, Human Angle and women oriented stories during elections. She has also worked with election special teams. She loves to read Hindi-Urdu Literature & cinema.
Anmol Alphonso
Anmol Alphonso is a fact-checker with BOOM. He has previously interned at IndiaSpend as a fact-checker and was a reporting intern at Times of India, Indian Express, and Mid-Day. He is a post-graduate diploma holder in journalism from St Paul's Institute of Communication Education, Mumbai.
Archis Chowdhury
Archis is a fact-checker and reporter at BOOM. He has previously worked as a journalist for broadsheet newspapers and in communications for a social start-up incubator. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris and a Master's in Media and Political Communication from the University of Amsterdam.
Karen Rebelo
Karen Rebelo works as an investigative reporter, fact-checker and a copy-editor at BOOM. Her specialization includes spotting and debunking fake images and viral fake videos. Karen is a former Reuters wires journalist and has covered the resources sector in the UK and the Indian stock market and private equity sector. She cut her teeth as a prime-time television producer doing business news shows.
Nivedita Niranjankumar
A former city correspondent covering crime, Nivedita is a fact checker at BOOM and works to stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation. When not at work, she escapes into second-hand bookstores, looking for magic or a mystery.
Ritika Jain
After an almost decade-long career as a photojournalist, Ritika returned to the fold as a journalist and is now a legal reporter. A true Mumbaiite, she did her graduation from Jai Hind College and Masters from University of Westminster, London. Through her writing, Ritika hopes to simplify the judiciary and all it entails. If not cooped up at home reading or bingeing on TV shows/movies, she is probably traveling or trying out new restaurants.
Rohit Kumar
Rohit is a fact-checker with BOOMLIVE. He has previously worked in DD News and with Gaon Connection as a freelancer. He has done his post-graduate diploma in Hindi Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Swasti Chatterjee
Swasti Chatterjee is a fact-checker and the Deputy News Editor of Boom's Bangla team. She has worked in the mainstream media, in the capacity of a reporter and copy editor with The Times of India, The Indian Express and NDTV.com and is now working as a digital detective, debunking fake news.