Riddhi is an incoming fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review. She recently graduated Columbia Journalism School as class valedictorian with a masters in investigative journalism. During this time, she led the 2024 election day broadcast coverage at the school. She was given the James Wechsler award and a Pulitzer Travel Grant for her reporting. She and her colleagues were awarded third place in the Reynold’s Institute student journalism competition for a browser plug-in tool that simplifies news websites based on a reader’s interests.
After graduating summa cum laude from American University with a BA in journalism, she was a reporter for Bloomberg Law, covering labor and intellectual property. In this position, she and her team were awarded ASPBE’s AZBEE National Gold Award for online single topic coverage by a team, based on their reporting of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman’s ousting from court.
Throughout her career, she has focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence with the beats she has covered, reporting on intellectual property disputes over LLM’s learning materials, shedding light on how AI has transformed the fashion modeling industry and covering the latest AI regulations and their impact.
Her reporting on this rapidly expanding and developing area combined with investigative training have shaped her desire to find innovative and responsible ways in which AI can help investigative journalists. She hopes to help make investigative reporting more accessible at a time where misinformation is rampant, public trust is fragile, and newsrooms are rapidly shrinking.