Sudeshna Chanda

I work with small newsrooms — independent, exiled, diaspora-focused — understand their audience needs, tailor audience engagement plan to their context, and build sustainable revenue models.

I work with newsrooms on building products, from newsletters to AI-assisted workflows. Most of what I know comes from doing: working with exiled media, building DoorDesi, and testing in real conditions.

I like working with teams like an embedded support such as in focused 4–6 week sprints to build, test, and refine solutions that keep working even when I step away instead of coming in with generic templates. I shoulder the responsibilities, the failure, as well as the success with the teams I work with.

Teams I have worked with: Zamaneh Media, Network of Exiled Media Outlets, Centre for Sustainable Media, Confidencial, MeydanTV, Confidencial, IranDraft, Peoples Represented