• Devika Mehta
• Deputy Editor
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About: Devika Mehta is a seasoned media professional with 17+ years of experience across print, broadcast, and digital platforms in India and the US. She currently serves as Deputy Editor at Jagran New Media and works with Vishvas News as a fact-checker and media literacy trainer. She also conducts pioneering AI training programs in India and has trained over 10,000 journalists, students, professionals, security forces and senior citizens. A certified AI trainer with the ADiRA Network, she has also led initiatives with Meta’s fact-checkers, NCERT, and Indian Defence & Police. Selected among 40 global journalists for the Pulitzer Center’s Reporting on AI Intensive, she cascaded her learnings through Jagran’s in-house ‘SMARTOSAUR’ initiative. She is also the creator of the award-winning video series AI Literacy: Bridging the Gap, which has won WAN-IFRA 2025 and AFAQS 2024 media innovation awards.

Qualification: She holds a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism, Bhopal, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in ‘Artificial Intelligence and Indian Journalism’ from Amity University, Noida.

Certification:
•AI for Digital Readiness and Advancement Train the Trainer Programme Certification
•Generative AI and ChatGPT from IIT Delhi
•Introduction to Auditing Systems
•Digital Sherlocks Program Fall 2023 Fellow
•Global Certificate in Data Science and Machine Learning
•Certificate for Foundations of Cybersecurity
•Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn
•Best of Next ’23 – Google Cloud Asia Pacific Badge
•Data Analysis with Python
•Data Visualization Techniques
•Machine Learning Foundation and Intermediate
•EDA & Data Storytelling
•Global Infodemic Management Course
•Advanced Web Search by AFP
•Fact-checking made easy and AI, Algorithms, and Journalism by Udemy
•Fundamentals of Digital Marketing and Introduction to Machine Learning by Google