Biography

Narantungalag Enkhtur (Naanga) is a media entrepreneur, a journalist and a fact-checker who has more than a decade of experience in local community radio, print and television stations including Bloomberg. Based in Ulaanbaatar, Naanga writes about the local topics which need international attention from global audiences, as well as international topics that need national attention. Her beats are mining, business, and climate change, and she has also published with several international and local media including China Daily, Montsame Agency, NTV Television, and www.itoim.mn. During her postgraduate studies in Global Business Journalism at Tsinghua University, Naanga won the best achievement awards from the ICFJ on her portfolio of human stories under the poverty in China and Mongolia. To empower independent media and journalists, she co-founded Nest Center for Journalism Innovation and Development (Nest Center) with her former colleague at Bloomberg in Mongolia. The Nest Center is ‘nesting’ about 100 journalists to ‘sharpen their pens’ in fact-checking and data journalism to bring more diverse news coverage. Hence, her team initiated a news intelligence solution called Uzeg (pen in Mongolian) - one of the finalists of a media start-up competition of Global Media Forum by DW - for freelance journalists to give a chance to dive deeper into local topics that attracted less coverage in mainstream media, such as climate change, poverty and matters related to sustainable developments.