Nikita Mandhani

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Senior Producer/Journalist/Editor

New Delhi, Delhi IN

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A journalist and filmmaker who works at the intersection of digital video, audience engagement and social media

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Nikita is an independent journalist, filmmaker and audience strategist based in New Delhi, India. She specializes in daily news and feature reporting, making short documentaries, reaching underserved audiences, and developing new video formats for multiple platforms including YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram. Until recently, she was a senior video producer at the BBC where she led all news and feature video coverage from India. She also launched In Sync, a column for the Video Consortium, exploring innovation in non-fiction video. Nikita has trained journalists, editors and producers around the world on all-things-video and audience engagement. Before joining the BBC, she was a video producer with the Emerging News Products team at the Washington Post in Washington D.C. Her videos and writing have appeared in The Washington Post, BBC News, NBC News, AJ+, Vox.com, USA Today and Business Insider.

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‘I was told I looked like a Dalmatian dog’ | The Definition of Beauty

Holding on to hope during India’s Covid disaster

'I fought the Portuguese by starting a radio station' | I remember how Goa was freed

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