Can Umang Bedi keep Dailyhunt relevant?

The over-a-decade-old company has been trying to move beyond news for a while and seems to have finally caught a break.

The ideal way to tell the Dailyhunt story is to divide it into a before and after. Not because something changed radically at the company at some point, but because something was supposed to.

It was early 2018 and Umang Bedi had just stepped away from one of the most high-profile jobs in the country—the post of India and South Asia managing director of Facebook. He had barely spent 16 months running the show before he called it quits. His resignation surprised many, but his subsequent appointment surprised many more.

A month later, Bedi took over as the president (and …

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Harveen Ahluwalia

Harveen is a co-founder at The Morning Context, and leads our Internet coverage, overseeing a team of reporters writing on startups and tech. She has previously worked as a media, consumer and tech reporter at The Ken and Mint. At The Morning Context, she writes on startups, venture capital, consumer and media businesses—from e-commerce to healthtech to streaming.

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