Shruthi Nair

Shruthi Nair is a journalist currently based out of the Middle
East. She started her career in journalism at the age of 20 with
Times of Oman and became a part of a 3 member team (which
eventually grew multifold) that started Times TV, the country’s
only online television platform. During her time in Oman, she
was credited to have changed the new media landscape, being
the face of the country’s largest daily. When cyclone Mekunu
struck Salalah, she was the only English journalist to cover the
disaster from the eye of the storm (literally) that reached
millions of audiences worldwide. She was subsequently
interviewed by BBC World and Sky News for the exclusive
coverage. She even landed a Ted Talk to her credit to share her
achievements in Muscat as a visual media storyteller.

She moved to Dubai in 2018 to join Arabian Business as the
video reporter and was soon promoted to the Head of Video
Content for 7 of the GCC’s biggest B2B magazine titles in 2019.
As an adherent of new media, she’s launched five online shows
for Arabian Business and multiple series for other titles and won
multiple awards for the online debate show ‘Crossfire’ the she
produced and hosted.

She the took on the role as executive editor of Images
RetailME, a B2B retail news publication and managed the
monthly magazine and the publication’s digital channels, along
with industry and trade events organised by the publication.
Currently, she is the multimedia editor of AGBI, a London-HQed
business news publication that caters to MENA consumers.
She is in-charge of all things video and audio and is constantly
looking for ways to tell engaging business stories to a varied
and diverse set of audience in a highly competitive media
landscape.