{"id":4986,"date":"2018-11-15T20:38:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/?post_type=ona_speaker&#038;p=4986"},"modified":"2018-11-15T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:38:22","slug":"anna-nirmala","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/anna-nirmala\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Nirmala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Nirmala comes to the media world after being a management consultant for a big 4 firm, focusing on strategy and operations. After realizing that almost all of her free time was spent obsessing over journalism, she opted for a mission-driven career. She&#8217;s a strategy and business professional dedicated to the advancing and helping of media and content creators undergoing transformational change. 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