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Nikita Mandhani is an independent journalist, filmmaker and audience strategist based in New Delhi, India. Until recently, she was a senior video producer at the BBC where she led all their news and feature video coverage from India. She specializes in daily news and feature video reporting, making short documentaries, reaching underserved audiences, and developing new storytelling formats for multiple platforms including YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram. She also launched In Sync, a column for the Video Consortium, exploring innovation in non-fiction video.

Nikita has been training journalists, editors and producers around the world on all-things-video and audience engagement for years now. Before joining the BBC, she was a video producer with the Emerging News Products team at the Washington Post in Washington D.C. Her videos and writing have appeared in The Washington Post, BBC News, NBC News, AJ+, Vox.com, USA Today and Business Insider.