Durga Raghunath
Durga Raghunath
News Head, Times Internet, India
Now she is News Head at Times Internet, After 15+ years in digital media and commerce - product development that changes consumer behaviour, and consumer technology are deep interests. Have spent the last few years obsessing about mobile experiences and thinking more about monetization of digital products — ads, daily transactions and subscription. Happy to help consumer media startups think through the stages of product-market fit, executing for scale and business metrics
Durga Raghunath is responsible for managing the business and editorial operations of all digital brands of India’s Express Group. She is the founder-CEO of Firstpost, India's first exclusively digital newsroom and was CEO of Network 18 digital, overseeing Moneycontrol, IBNLive, News18, Firstpost, Burrp!, In.com and regional media products.
Raghunath started out in book publishing in India and with HarperCollins in New York. She co-founded and was CEO of Juggernaut Books, a digital-first publishing startup, focused on creating new genres of ebooks and a writing platform for the Indian public on their smartphones.
She is a Facebook #SheleadsTech Mentor and has an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and a Publishing Degree from Columbia University in New York City.