THE WEEK and award-winning, globally recognised digital media and tech company DataLEADS have announced their collaboration to revolutionise news and shape the future with fact-checks, data and Live Journalism. The partnership will expand the scope of THE WEEK’s journalism with the data-driven insights and fact-checking expertise of DataLEADS.
Under the partnership, THE WEEK and DataLEADS will collaborate and build a series of tech-driven, digital-first news products, and host major Live Journalism events in India, the UAE and other global hubs.
“The collaboration between THE WEEK and DataLEADS marks a transformative step in journalism,” said Riyad Mathew, Chief Associate Editor and Director, THE WEEK. “By combining the editorial excellence of THE WEEK with the data and tech expertise of DataLEADS, we aim to deliver stories rooted in facts and precision. Together, we are redefining the standards of Live journalism with real-time data and rigorous fact-checking.”
“This partnership underscores the importance of transparency and credibility in today’s media landscape,” he added. “It is a shared commitment to empower readers with truth, context and clarity.”
Syed Nazakat, founder and CEO of DataLEADS, said that the company believed in innovative and collaborative journalism. “We have been the pioneers of revolutionising news ecosystems in India with a focus on data, AI and fact-checking,” he said. “We share a common vision with THE WEEK to create digitally led global multimedia news platforms. By combining data-driven insights, fact-checking, and Live Journalism, we are spearheading a new standard for storytelling, in collaboration with THE WEEK, in an exciting new phase of global engagement and impact.”
DataLEADS has a worldwide focus on information integrity, AI, health literacy, infodemic management and digital transformation. It also runs Asian Dispatch, a pan-Asia newsroom which reaches millions of readers every week in more than 10 Asian countries, with the help of 18 regional publishers.