Summary
Areena Arora is an editorial coder and data journalist with eight years of cross-continental newsroom experience, currently shaping data-driven, experiential storytelling for The Hindu's digital audience. Trained at Columbia Journalism School, she blends investigative reporting chops—earned covering education beat stories that won state-level awards—with front-end data visualization and newsroom product experience from roles at Reuters and Glance. Comfortable leading projects under breaking-news pressure, she has scaled content for audiences of 100M+ and curated datasets to illuminate complex public-school systems. Her work sits at the intersection of journalism, ethics, and AI, and she has a knack for turning public records and messy data into empathetic, actionable narratives. Outside work she’s a perpetual home cook and plant-raiser, a detail that mirrors her practice of cultivating stories from small signals to full-grown investigations.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Journalism, Master of Science - MS, Data Journalism at Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism Major, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Journalism Major at Ohio Wesleyan University
High School Diploma, Economics, History, Geography and English, High School Diploma, Economics, History, Geography and English at Army Public School, Allahabad, India
English, Hindi, Punjabi