Meera Devi is the bureau chief at Khabar Lahariya, the country’s only women-run brand of ethical and independent rural news. With 14+ years of reporting on rural issues, Meera specializes in investigative journalism and policy reporting. Her special reports have included lifting the curtains off the administrative apathy around the broken healthcare systems combating T.B.in the rural hinterland of U.P. She also hosts a show on local politics, titled Rajneeti, Ras, Raay.Khabar Lahariya reaches up to 10 million people a month through multiple digital platforms. We have a network of women reporters and stringers in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.This model of the local, embedded reporter reporting as an insider from the community itself, with the deepest and most nuanced understanding of hyper-local issues, is Khabar Lahariya’s singular edge. From establishing itself as a chain of local language newspapers, in the last three years, Khabar Lahariya is now entirely digital, and runs a video news service for media dark areas of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.