SRIJITA DATTA

(609)-210-6782 | srijita.r.datta@gmail.com | https://srijitad.weebly.com/

WORK EXPERIENCES
INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST Museum Mapper and Photographer
Voice of America, South and Central Asia division/VoA Bangla Sahapedia
Washington D.C., United States Kolkata, West Bengal, India
October 2023 - Present August 2017 - August 2018
Produce visual content for social media Shot good-quality pictures of museum galleries, exhibits, and
Adapt and/or translate content for use in web and social media exteriors (equipment: Nikon P530)
Participate in the creation and development of regularly scheduled Interviewed museum curators, directors, and other dignitaries
or special TV, web and social media reports Created reports for the outreach program
Create interactive graphs and visualizations for inclusion in web Maintained data-entry records for the assigned city
stories and/or social media
Conduct data driven reports/visualization as required Reporting and Editorial Intern
Assist in creating ad reports
The Statesman
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Multimedia Reporting Intern
January 2023 - May 2023 July 2011 - May 2015
Reported on data-driven projects including politics and other Wrote, edited, and compiled articles, reviews, op-eds, etc
government-related news gatherings from Bangladesh and broadly, Covered events in the city including art exhibits, book
South Asia launches
Created graphs and visualizations for data-driven projects Interviewed prominent people in the Bengali film industry
Assisted in video and/or photo editing for social media Maintained guest contributions pages of youth supplements
Shot videos and pictures for broadcast

EDUCATION HISTORY
Reporting Intern
OpenSecrets News University of Missouri-Columbia
Remote, United States Columbia, Missouri, United States
May 2022 - August 2022 Masters in Journalism
Wrote data-driven stories through a money-in-politics lens May 2023
tracking campaign finance
4.0 GPA
Reported how political dollars affected policies and public
(graduated in the top 10% of the class)
interests
Created data visualizations for respective reports, helped with
data analysis for multimedia projects Jadavpur University
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Masters in English | Bachelors in English
Reporter
2018-2020 | 2015-2018
Columbia Missourian
Columbia, Missouri, United States 9.31/10 CGPA | 9.07/10 CGPA
Conducted daily coverage of the Missouri General Assembly and
pitched enterprise stories SKILLS
Reported on breaking or spot news
Covered general assignment shifts to produce up to 3-5 weekly Reporting, photography, videography
stories Coding (R, SQL, HTML/CSS)
Data analysis (OpenRefine, Visual Studio Code)
Data Reporting Fellow Dataviz (Flourish, DataWrapper, Tableau, Infogram, MapBox)
Live Data Viz Visual editing (InVideo, Canva, MySimpleShow, iMovie,
Remote, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Conceptualized, visualized, and created 10 data-led text and video Adobe Premier Pro and Photoshop)
reports, in collaboration with Google News Initiative
Collaborated with the research team on various data projects across LANGUAGES
different mediums English (native or bilingual proficiency)
Helped in post-production and social media outreach Bengali, Hindi, Urdu (native or bilingual proficiency)