Sanjeev Srivastava is an Indian journalist. He was the India editor of BBC Hindi service, including Internet and radio, from 2006, having previously been a correspondent for the BBC. He started the BBC's first Mumbai Bureau reporting across BBC television and radio services in English, Hindi and Urdu. Before joining the BBC, he worked with the Times of India and Indian Express . [1]
Srivastava joined Sahara News Media Group as editor and CEO in December 2009, reporting to Sahara Group's chairman, Subrata Roy Sahara. [2] He resigned from Sahara on 5 May 2010. [3]
In 2011, Srivastava travelled across India as a journalism trainer with the BBC World Service Trust and continues to report for the BBC. [4]
Srivastava has also been the editor-at-large at Firstpost.com. He was the editor of DD News prime time show Newsnight 8pm – 10 pm before joining Focus News as group editor. He is the recipient of the Haldi Ghati award for journalism.[ citation needed ]
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the fourth-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is an Indian "newspaper of record".
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Aroon Purie is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today, and former chief executive of the India Today Group. He is the managing director of Thomson Press (India) Limited and the chairman and managing director of TV Today. He is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award. He was also the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest India. In October 2017, he passed control of the India Today Group to his daughter, Kalli Purie.
Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is an Indian media centre of learning and civil service training institute for the Indian Information Service Cadre funded and promoted by the Government of India in New Delhi. The IIMC is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The then Minister in charge of Information and Broadcasting, Indira Gandhi formally inaugurated the institute on 17 August 1965.
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