Chitranshu is the Product and Revenue Director at Newslaundry. In the organisation’s 10-year journey to disrupt the news media ecosystem, he has led its growth from a few hundred subscribers to a community of more than 50,000 paying readers. For the last eight years, he has led teams that have built and scaled Newslaundry’s business, tech, events, and audience engagement. Chitranshu built a subscription model at a time when ad-based revenue models were the norm, making him among the first media leaders to shape the subscription news model in India from the ground up.

He has shipped products ranging from apps and websites to native podcast players and accessibility, and his work has brought new ideas and innovations to both content and revenue. He conceptualised award-winning programs like Campus Politik and designed revenue streams like NL Sena for long-form stories – a crowdfunding project that has raised over Rs 3 crore.

His work has been recognised by international awards and honours, including the World Youth Summit Award by the United Nations GAI, WAN IFRA Global Media Awards, Digipub Media Awards, Laadli Media Award, and an honourable mention at the INMA Global Media Awards 2023. In 2022, he was listed in the ‘30 under 30’ global list of media professionals by the International News Media Association and selected for the GNI-Columbia University’s Newsroom Leadership Program. He is among 25 media leaders selected worldwide for the AI Journalism Lab at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.