The challenge
Nikita Roy incubated The NRI Nation project while studying at Harvard to create a news source for the 32 million members of the Indian diaspora living around the world. As NRI Nation grew, Nikita sought help creating policies and systems to manage her dispersed team of contributors and ensure they weren’t continuously joining and leaving. She also wanted to eventually transition contractors to FTEs and needed advice for the best way to train and orient new recruits.
Nikita isn’t a trained journalist – and neither are most of her contributors. That means she spends a lot of time upskilling and training her team in the basics of accurate reporting. Finding ways to make training easier and more time-efficient is a high priority as Nikita navigates NRI Nation’s transition from “project” to “growing publication.”
“I Really Liked The Curriculum. The Labs Helped Deliver Exactly The Information That You Needed, In A Very Concise Way. And That'S What Really Helped With Our Conversations With Jennifer. I Was Able To Have Really Thought-Provoking Conversations Because I Had The Baseline Foundations Of Knowledge To Then Think More Critically About Those Topics With Her.”
Nikita Roy
Founder, The NRI Nation