Krishna Bharat Invents Google News After 9/11
When the September 11 attacks overwhelmed online news systems and left millions unable to find coherent, multi-source coverage, Google research scientist Krishna Bharat built a solution. Using his 20% personal project time, he developed a prototype that automatically crawled, clustered, and ranked news from hundreds of sources without human editorial curation. Google News launched in […]
Krishna Bharat
Krishna Bharat is a computer scientist and Distinguished Research Scientist at Google whose invention of Google News transformed how the world accesses journalism. After receiving a PhD from Georgia Tech and joining Google in 1999, he developed the first prototype for an automated news aggregation system in the weeks following the September 11 attacks, frustrated […]
Geeta Anand Wins Pulitzer Prize and Later Leads UC Berkeley’s Journalism School
Investigative journalism and journalism education converged in the career of Geeta Anand. After winning a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting at The Wall Street Journal, she became a bestselling author before assuming leadership of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2020. As dean, she helped shape the next generation of American reporters while […]
Sanjay Gupta Becomes America’s Most Trusted Medical Journalist
Medical journalism assumed new importance in American public life through the reporting of Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Joining CNN in 2001, he combined clinical expertise with frontline reporting from wars, natural disasters, and public health emergencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his coverage became one of the country’s most trusted sources of medical information, helping millions understand […]
Fareed Zakaria Rises from Foreign Affairs to CNN’s Premier Global Affairs Program
American audiences gained a deeper understanding of international affairs through the work of Fareed Zakaria. Appointed managing editor of Foreign Affairs at just twenty-eight, he emerged as one of the country’s leading interpreters of global politics before launching Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN in 2008. The Peabody Award-winning program brought long-form geopolitical analysis to mainstream […]
Srinija Srinivasan Shapes Information Architecture as Yahoo’s First Editor-in-Chief
The early internet became easier for millions of Americans to navigate through the work of Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo’s first editor-in-chief. As one of the company’s earliest employees, she helped organize the web before search engines became dominant, developing editorial systems that guided users to news, information, and online resources. Her work shaped how a generation […]
Indian Americans Win Two Pulitzer Prizes in a Single Year
Pulitzer Prize history reached a milestone when Megha Rajagopalan and Neil Bedi received journalism’s highest honor in the same year. Rajagopalan’s groundbreaking investigation into China’s detention of Uyghurs combined satellite imagery with forensic reporting, while Bedi’s local reporting exposed failures within Florida’s criminal justice system. Their victories reflected the breadth of Indian American journalism, spanning […]
Indian Americans Break Through as Faces of National Television News
National television audiences increasingly encountered Indian American journalists as trusted presenters of news and sports. Kevin Negandhi became ESPN’s first anchor of Indian origin, while Hari Sreenivasan later anchored PBS NewsHour Weekend, one of public television’s flagship news programs. Their visibility represented a significant shift in American broadcasting, placing South Asian journalists in roles that […]
Indian Americans Break Into the Senior-Most Ranks of US Mainstream Media
Editorial leadership at America’s leading news organizations became markedly more diverse as Peter Bhatia, Raju Narisetti, Madhulika Sikka, and Davan Maharaj assumed some of the industry’s most influential posts. Their appointments placed journalists of Indian origin in positions that shaped what millions of Americans read and heard each day, reflecting the diaspora’s growing influence over […]
Voices of Radio: Indian Americans Shape American Airwaves
Indian American broadcasters expanded from community radio into the center of American public broadcasting over several decades. Rohit Jagessar established a dedicated radio platform for the diaspora, while Lakshmi Singh became one of the most recognizable voices on NPR. Arun Rath later anchored flagship national programs including the Weekend Edition of All Things Considered. Together, […]