Mrunal Wange

Business & Economy Editor at The Balanced News

Mrunal Wange writes about business, finance, and economic policy at The Balanced News. She breaks down how markets, trade deals, and fiscal policy are reported differently across Indian media outlets. Within TBN's editorial workflow, Mrunal is the named reviewer for the business, crypto, and economic-policy beats — she validates the AI bias analysis against actual coverage, checks that market terminology and numeric claims are correctly identified, and ensures that the sentiment scoring distinguishes between an outlet's editorial position and the underlying economic facts. She tracks how the same earnings release, RBI policy decision, budget announcement, or trade pact is reported by national pink-press outlets, English-language broadsheets, regional business dailies, and digital-first finance publications, surfacing differences in which numbers get highlighted, which analysts get quoted, and which sectoral implications get foregrounded. Mrunal pays particular attention to coverage patterns around mergers, IPOs, corporate-governance disputes, regulatory enforcement actions, and sectoral cycles (banking, IT services, real estate, energy, FMCG), where outlet ownership and investor relationships can produce systematically different framings. She also writes reader-facing explainers on how to read corporate disclosures and how to spot common business-journalism patterns — sourced primarily from a single press release, lifted from an analyst note, or the rare independent reporting — and contributes the business-side methodology notes that feed into TBN's published bias data.