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- Niharika Acharya is joining Semafor, Justin Smith and Ben Smith's new media startup, to create their global events vertical. She most recently has been executive director of events at The Hill, where she led the event content team in ideation, strategy setting and speaker recruitment. In taking events from concept to execution, she works closely with The Hill's newsroom to develop programs that examine the impact of policies and regulations on a national and international scale. Previously, as a senior producer with Atlantic LIVE, the events division of The Atlantic, her work focused on politics and policy events. She played a leading role in the conceptualization and execution of events during the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions. Prior to that as the editorial director of National Journal LIVE, she led content creation and speaker recruitment for events and managed the content team. Prior to joining the National Journal, she was a freelance producer at Fox TV. Niharika worked at Bloomberg TV from 2010 to 2014, she was the Producer of Bloomberg Television's flagship political show, Political Capital with Al Hunt, a political show with an economic edge. The show features discussions on national and international news, along with a weekly wrap-up and interviews with key political figures. Before joining Bloomberg Television Niharika Acharya was a television news reporter and anchor for Voice of America. As a reporter/editor Niharika covered 2004 and 2008 U.S Presidential Elections, UN General Assembly sessions, 9/11 Anniversaries and US-India Relations (including the U.S-India Nuclear Deal.She was the Managing Editor of Voice of America's India Service. The VOA India service is now defunct.Her noteworthy interviews include Former US President Bill Clinton, Former Turkmenistani Prime Minister , Indian and Tajikistani foreign ministers, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, State Dept officials, NASA Astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Suni Williams, members of American Congress, Indian Politicians and Hollywood-Bollywood artists. (en)
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- Niharika Acharya is joining Semafor, Justin Smith and Ben Smith's new media startup, to create their global events vertical. She most recently has been executive director of events at The Hill, where she led the event content team in ideation, strategy setting and speaker recruitment. In taking events from concept to execution, she works closely with The Hill's newsroom to develop programs that examine the impact of policies and regulations on a national and international scale. Previously, as a senior producer with Atlantic LIVE, the events division of The Atlantic, her work focused on politics and policy events. She played a leading role in the conceptualization and execution of events during the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions. (en)
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