Neeti Upadhye is an award-winning multimedia journalist with over a decade of experience in everything from print to VR storytelling. She is currently a Senior Video Manager at The Washington Post, where she oversees a global team working on breaking news and interactive storytelling. Past work includes Brut India, The New York Times, NowThis, and the Democrat and Chronicle. After several years abroad, Neeti has finally made it home to California. She is most passionate about covering underrepresented communities and aims to make the future of news more inclusive.
Neeti’s vision for digital journalism
[Note: As part of the board election process, we ask candidates to share with the ONA community their vision for the industry and how they would reimagine it.]
For journalism to succeed in the future, we must learn to meet people where they are, not where we want them to be. That means doing the work to understand diverse communities’ user habits and putting in the effort to innovate our storytelling formats.
I also believe breaking news needs to be fundamentally reimagined. Too often it focuses on tragedy and centers official voices, like police. By putting communities and context at the heart of fast-moving coverage, we can regain the trust of local communities and work to create systems that protect our journalists’ mental health as they do this difficult work.