Founder & Editor, Beatroot News
FactShala Ambassador
Faye D’Souza
“We live in the world of fake news, manipulated videos and AI generated audio that threatens the very idea of the truth. The Factshala Ambassador programme is thankfully empowering individuals with the tools for critical thinking and media literacy. If each reader and audience member is empowered with skills necessary for navigating through this treacherous landscape and is able to make informed choices about media, we will have together stemmed the flow of fake news around our world. Let’s strengthen the ideas of democracy, free speech and empowered citizenry with this powerful concept.”
Faye D’Souza
Faye D’Souza is an award winning journalist who has gained popularity, especially among the youth, for her balanced and unbiased style of journalism. With a following of over 3 million across social media platforms, Faye and her team have built a reputation for reliable, non-partisan news updates on social media.
Faye has been the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism and the RedInk Award for “Journalist of the Year” in 2018 and the RedInk Award for reporting on health in 2021. She was also named Vogue’s Woman of the Year and Impact’s 40 under 40 several times.
Faye began her career at CNBC-TV18, covering business and finance, economic crime and corporate affairs. Transitioning to ET Now, she continued her focus on personal finance delivering incisive reporting and analysis on market trends and financial developments. She moved on to Mirror Now to become the youngest women journalist in India to head any national TV news channel as Executive Editor, where she tackled a wide array of pressing social and civic issues, exhibiting a fearless and direct approach in holding authorities accountable and advocating for societal change. Her work at Mirror Now cemented her reputation as one of India’s foremost journalists, known for her unwavering commitment to journalistic integrity and her dedication to shedding light on issues of public interest.
Following her exit from television, Faye has built a strong following on Instagram and YouTube and also launched her news app called Beatroot News with the aim to restore dignity and credibility to news.
About Factshala:
FactShala India Media Literacy Network is a collaborative news and information literacy program run by DataLEADS with support from the Google News Initiative. It’s a collective of 250 journalists, media educators, fact-checkers, non-profit workers and community radio stations, who are on a mission to empower people in non-metro cities and rural areas and also youth and students with the skills required to critically analyze online information and spot misinformation.
About MediaWise:
MediaWise is a digital media literacy initiative based at the nonprofit Poynter Institute. The program teaches people of all ages and backgrounds how to responsibly engage with online content in the age of information overload. The program was created in 2018 to empower people to find trusted sources and make sense of the vast amount of information at their fingertips. It brings simple, yet effective, digital media literacy tools to people where they are — whether they’re on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or TikTok or in one of the nine countries where MediaWise operates.