[3][4] Before founding Newslaundry, he worked as a producer, director and writer in television and film projects, including Highway on my Plate,[5] which he co-produced and directed; and news-satire show Gustaakhi Maaf.

He produced, scripted and co-directed documentary film Chadar along with Prashant Sareen on a winter trade route in the Zanskar valley of Ladakh.

Chadar went on to win the Best Travel Documentary Award at the EVEO Spring Fest, 2000 at San Francisco[12] and received a Special Jury Prize at Okinawa, Japan in 2001.

[15] In 2000, Sekhri co-founded Small Screen,[16] a[17] Delhi-based agency that provides audio video production services for television, digital and film-based platforms.

In 2012, Sekhri, along with Madhu Trehan, Roopak Kapoor and Prashant Sareen, founded Newslaundry, a media critique, news and current affairs website.