Indira Lakshmanan
Boston Globe and Poynter Institute
Indira Lakshmanan, a Boston Globe columnist, is the Newmark chair in journalism ethics at the Poynter Institute, the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism think tank and training institute in the U.S. She has covered campaigns, coups, and revolutions, reporting from the U.S. and 80 countries for The Boston Globe, Bloomberg, the International New York Times, NPR, PBS, Politico Magazine and others. In a new role for Poynter, Indira is writing, teaching and convening journalists around the importance of free and fair media in sustaining democracy, forging public trust, and truth-telling to hold officials accountable. Indira graduated from Harvard University where she was awarded a Nieman journalism fellowship in 2003.
