Deepshikha Ghosh – Chief Content Officer

Deepshikha Ghosh is a journalist who has worked across digital, television and print media. She took over as Chief Content Officer of Express digital in March 2026, and oversees Lighthouse Journalism. Based in New Delhi, she is a newsroom leader who has worked across print, wire, TV and digital. She has always focused on public interest journalism and building audience-first storytelling.

She believes fact-checking is the backbone of journalism today — especially in an era of fake news where separating fact from noise is becoming harder than ever.

Ankita Deshkar- Deputy copy editor and Fact Checker

Ankita Deshkar is working as a deputy copy editor and fact checker with The Indian Express group. She has over 7 years of experience in the field of journalism. In the past she has also worked with Vishvas News as a consultant fact checker.

Ankita is a certified, Google News Initiative India Training Network (GNI) trainer for fact checking and online verification and a trainer for a year-long fellowship programme for fact checking and online verification launched by Meta and Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) in the year 2022, which trained over 20 fellows from 10 media organisations across the country.

Ankita is an Engineering graduate (BE, Elect Engg), she has an MA in Mass Communication from RTM Nagpur University. She also has a PGTD in Cyber law & Information Technology and Intellectual Property Rights.

Certification:

Ankita has a certificate of Hands-on Fact-Checking: A Short Course – Poynter University’s eLearning course and a certificate in Introduction to Digital Journalism By Reuters.She also completed an online certification course on , ‘Fact checking fundamentals with IFCN’.