
Content Head at I-Next web portal, a venture of Jagran Prakashan Ltd.
Delhi Area, India

Content Head at I-Next web portal, a venture of Jagran Prakashan Ltd.
Delhi Area, India
Currently working with Jagran Prakashan Ltd. as a Content Head of it's youth oriented web portal. Past experience with Greynium IT Pvt. Ltd. as an editor of news and entertainment portal. Having four launching experience including web portal of inext, Hindi news portal of oneindia.in, language exercises of AOL and India’s first bilingual tabloid daily from Jagran Group of Publications, I-Next.
10 years experience in print and web with a specialization in cinema and new media.
(Public Company; Media Production industry)
October 2009 — Present (3 months)
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2007 — November 2009 (2 years 3 months)
All the responsibilities including news room administration, website optimization, SEO and the web contents for OneIndia.in. Coordinated mobile content and media partnership with BBC Hindi. Launched and outsourced more than one year the language version of AOL, a media company operated by Time Warner.
(Public Company; Media Production industry)
September 2006 — August 2007 (1 year )
Worked in India’s first bilingual tabloid daily I-Next, as a head of the Lucknow desk team. Also part of the core team of I-Next in conceptualization of the whole theme, content and style.
(Newspapers industry)
November 1998 — September 2006 (7 years 11 months)
Worked as a reporter and desk person in Allahabad and Bareilly. Covered many political, social and cultural events and wrote a lot exclusive stories on archaeology, education, politics, development, students and public movements etc. Working experience in bureau administration, general desk, copy editing, page making, news coordination and city reporting.
Master Degree in Media Business Management , Media , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
MA , Sociology , 1999 — 2001
Indian and western philosophy, internet, cinema, comics, music and new media.
Participated India's first-of-its-kind script writing workshop (2005) in Delhi organized by Jaya Bachchan and worked with directors like Govind Nihlani and Gulzar Worked there in a close connection with film director Krishna Shah from California, Shah is the first Asian-American writer/director/producer who has won critical acclaim on Broadway and in Hollywood.
Also in the board of studies of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and wrote some special chapters on feature writing in newspaper.
In 1996-1997 working in I-Next, was part of a core team in conceptualization of the whole concept, content and style of this new concept in print media industry.
Got a special certificate on Defense Journalism from Junior Leader's Academy a wing of Indian Army.
Worked as a media expert on health issues in Uttar Pradesh, especially for WHO and Health Ministry.