Arun Venkataraman, a medium skinned man with short dark hair, speaks on a stage.

Arun Venkataraman

Arun Venkataraman is the Global Lead for Emerging Voices and Research at the Google News Initiative. Over the past decade, has played multiple roles in Google’s work with the news ecosystem: spearheading the Google News Initiative’s investment in Latin America, leading the Global Digital Growth Program, and leading strategy at the Google News Lab. His work spans leading industry efforts to deepen understanding of sustainability across the news industry – like the News Sustainability Project – and efforts to elevate the ecosystem’s understanding of and engagement with the next generation of news providers – like the Global News Gaps Project. At the Shorenstein Center, he plans to distill his work into a research paper and podcast series on the future of news.