Rashmi Menon

I cover trends in HR, talent, workplace, work culture, and our the changing nature of and approach to work. However, my writing is not limited to these topics as I write on varied topics like environment, culture, relationships, and other offbeat stories. I am a co host of a weekly podcast 'The Working Life'. As the title suggests, the podcast delves on the changes in our work-life since the Covid-19 pandemic.

Catered to the male readers, the focus is on corporate lifestyle, luxury trends, tech news as well as doing profiles of corporate and business newsmakers. I do profiles/ interviews of corporate honchos and interesting entrepreneurs to decipher what drives them, experiences that have shaped them & their inspirations; life beyond work & interesting employee engagement activities. Travel and art trends from business lens are also topics that touch upon.

I cover the business of advertising, brands and marketing strategies for Afaqs! online. I also write for its fortnightly magazine, Afaqs! Reporter. Afaqs! is the first online B2B magazine and is 13 years old. - Generate exclusive stories for the online edition, which is revised daily. - Rewriting and editing copies. - Ensuring adequate stories are there for the day's story lineup - Generate cover story and other section ideas for Afaqs! Reporter. - Conduct profiles, interviews of marketing heads and industry veterans for Afaqs! Reporter. - Work on the production of Afaqs! Reporter - create pages and sub editing stories.

I did stories on current affairs, policy issues, education, lifescience and business profiles. Some of my works have appeared in Inc India, MediaVoice, Careers 360, Life Science India, Good Governance (both by Namaste Publication) and Digital Natives with a Cause? newsletter (an initiative by Bangalore-based The Centre for Internet & Society).

Keep track of development in public health domain, networking with state health department officials, private hospitals and independent public health experts and doctors, trends in healthcare, analyse policy matters, medical research, etc. On occasions, I would also covered Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and write stories related to disability, gender issues and offbeat topics. Some of my stories were carried as Page 1 lead and anchors.

I was part of the team that brought out the Sunday edition of the paper. Here, I wrote news features, which were in-depth stories on matters that were of relevance at that moment. Many on the articles pertained to health trends and developmental issues. I also wrote on offbeat subjects and profiles relevant to my target readers and also did page layouts. On occasions, I also did store and food reviews. During my stint there, some of my stories were also taken as lead, Page 1 pieces.

I covered news stories for Navi Mumbai, a sister city of Mumbai, for Mid Day Metro, the weekly community newspaper. Some of stories also appeared on Page 1. My work here gave me a rich experience in writing news and feature stories. I would cover civic problems, education, sports, food reviews, profiles and health.

I was part of the desk team in this weekly community newspaper, which covered seven suburbs of Mumbai. Each suburb had a dedicated newspaper for itself. I was in-charge of the listings page and edited stories and designed page layouts for newspapers of two suburbs. It was here that I learned the ropes of editing a copy well, to cross check facts and pay attention to details. These skills helped me immensely, when I became a reporter.