Categories: OLD Media Moves

Rest of World hires Punit as South Asia editor

Itika Sharma Punit

Rest of World has tapped Itika Sharma Punit as South Asia editor, helping to build coverage on how technology intersects with the lives of people in the world’s most populous region.

For the past 6 years, Punit has been with Quartz, where she has worked as a writer, tech editor for India, co-editor for India and most recently as India editor. Before that, she was a principal correspondent at Business Standard.

She has also worked as a reporter and correspondent at Newswire18.

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