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Samarth Bansal

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Head of Content at The Whole Truth Foods
📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Samarth Bansal is a journalist, programmer, and writer leading Media Labs at The Whole Truth Foods. An IIT Kanpur graduate, he has a dual career that blends data journalism with content leadership. He previously worked with The Wall Street Journal and Hindustan Times and is now founding a journalistic magazine called The Plank.

Outside of his primary career, Samarth is a personal blogger who writes about art, love, and solitude. He is deeply interested in health and wellness, having undertaken a significant weight loss journey and researched the science behind nutrition and fitness. He also explores using AI assistants to enhance his reading and learning.

Samarth has won hackathons for creating an Android app that detects earthquakes and for developing a device to monitor water levels in government tankers.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Head of Content
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Data Journalism
Combines his programming and writing skills, with past roles at The Wall Street Journal and Hindustan Times focusing on data-driven investigations and reporting.
Clean-Label Foods
Leads media labs at The Whole Truth Foods, a startup focused on 100% clean-label products, and co-created their health and fitness newsletter, "Truth Be Told".
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Career

Work history

6-2024
Head of Content
The Whole Truth Foods
2-2019 - 5-2024
Journalist
Independent
4-2019 - 5-2019
Editorial Consultant, Data Intelligence Unit
India Today
2-2017 - 1-2019
Assistant Editor
Hindustan Times
4-2018 - 8-2018
Data/Investigations Fellow
The Wall Street Journal
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Education
2011 - 2015
BS
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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