Rest of World hires Sengupta as South Asia editor

Durga Sengupta

Rest of World has hired Durga Sengupta as its South Asia editor.

Sengupta was previously the Southeast Asia Desk Editor for The Ken, where she worked for nearly five years. During that time, she worked closely with reporters across the organization to sharpen their pitches; to ideate, edit, and put out deeply reported long-form and investigative stories. Last year, she was also a part of a Google News Initiative cohort for Newsroom Leadership at the Columbia School of Journalism.

She has worked with a number of Indian media organizations such as the Hindustan Times and Catch News in her decade-long career. Although the majority of her work has focused on tech and business journalism, she’s also dabbled in gender, culture, and politics reporting — beats that remain close to her heart.

Sengupta will head the South Asia desk, covering critical subjects such as tech labor, e-commerce, and social media platforms.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.