Media Analyst (Freelancer)

About Us

Deccan AI Experts is a pioneering AI company founded by IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with a strong founding team from IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad, IITs, NITs, and BITS. We specialize in high-quality human-curated data, AI-first operations, and advanced AI evaluation systems.

About the Role

We are seeking a Media Analyst (Freelancer) to support advanced AI evaluation initiatives focused on media content analysis, news verification, multimedia evaluation, sentiment analysis, and AI-generated media content assessment.

In this role, you will evaluate AI-generated news articles, multimedia content, social media posts, reports, videos, and public information sources. Your expertise will help improve AI systems designed for media intelligence, content analysis, information retrieval, summarization, and automated news evaluation.

This position is ideal for professionals with experience in journalism, media research, news analysis, digital media, communications, editorial operations, content moderation, or media monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Create deliverables addressing real-world media analysis and content evaluation scenarios.
• Conduct structured media research by gathering and validating information from reputable news organizations, government publications, corporate announcements, and public data sources.
• Analyze media coverage, public narratives, trends, emerging topics, and industry developments across multiple sectors.
• Review AI-generated summaries, headlines, classifications, translations, and media reports for factual consistency and editorial quality.
• Identify misinformation, unsupported claims, hallucinations, duplicate content, misleading headlines, contextual inaccuracies, and citation errors.
• Evaluate multimedia content involving text, images, videos, audio, charts, and documents for relevance and quality.
• Provide structured feedback to improve AI performance in media analysis, summarization, classification, and content generation.
• Review peer-developed deliverables to maintain quality and consistency standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Mass Communication, Media Studies, English, Political Science, Public Policy, Communications, or a related field is preferred.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in journalism, media analysis, editorial operations, content review, news monitoring, communications, research, or digital publishing.
• Analyzing news coverage and media narratives across multiple industries and topics.
• Evaluating source credibility and verifying factual claims using reliable references.
• Reviewing AI-generated media summaries, reports, and news content.
• Identifying misinformation, editorial inconsistencies, bias, and unsupported conclusions.
• Writing structured analytical summaries and evidence-based evaluations.
• Excellent analytical thinking and critical reasoning skills.
• Strong written English communication and editorial writing skills.
• High attention to detail with the ability to evaluate complex information objectively.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with news organizations, media agencies, research firms, public relations agencies, consulting firms, think tanks, or digital publishing platforms.
• Experience in media monitoring, sentiment analysis, competitive intelligence, social listening, or communications research.
• Familiarity with AI-powered content generation, prompt engineering, RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), AI benchmarking, or content evaluation workflows.
• Experience using media monitoring platforms, news databases, fact-checking resources, and research tools.
• Background in politics, economics, business, healthcare, technology, finance, law, or international affairs is an advantage.
• Experience evaluating multilingual or multimodal AI-generated content is a plus.

Why Join Us

• Competitive hourly pay: ₹1,500/hour
• Fully remote with flexible working hours.
• Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI initiatives in media intelligence, content evaluation, and Generative AI.
• Exposure to advanced AI systems focused on news analysis, information retrieval, summarization, and multimedia understanding.
• Flexible project-based opportunities with global teams.
• Work on next-generation AI solutions supporting media, journalism, communications, and knowledge discovery.