About: Abhishek is an Associate Editor at Jagran New Media and is associated with Vishvas News as a fact-checker. He has over 13 years of experience in journalism.

He had previously worked with Press Trust of India, Business Standard, The Economic Times, Catch News (Rajsthan Patrika), and News Nation Digital. Abhishek is also a certified Google News Initiative (GNI) fact-checking and news verification trainer.

He has been working as a trainer at ‘Sach ke Sathi’, JNM’s internationally awarded media literacy initiative. He also has expertise in data analysis and has spent half of his career as a business journalist.

Qualification: He is a Post Graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Delhi University.

Certification: • Crowdtangle training and Hands-on Fact-Checking: A Short Course – Poynter University’s eLearning course.
• Introduction to Digital Journalism By Reuters
• Crowdtangle For Instagram: How To Use City To Make Your IG Pop and First Draft Training- Vaccine Insight Flexible Learning Course
• Attended several other workshops on the subject organized by IFCN, GNI, Facebook, Crowdtangle, and ICFJ.
• He has attended a 5-day Fact-Check and News Verification training conducted by a Google certified trainer.
• He has completed the Data Journalism, Verification, Election, and Introduction to machine learning courses in the Google News Training Centre.