Sanjiv Buttoo
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Sanjiv Buttoo is a Senior Broadcast Journalist working for BBC News
. He is the North of England Reporter for the BBC Asian Network
. Sanjiv has worked for BBC Radio Leeds
, BBC Radio Lancashire
, has been head of Asian Programmes for BBC North West
and has worked for the BBC's Investigation Unit. Sanjiv has produced TV reports for BBC North West Tonight and BBC Look North.
Sanjiv has experience in researching, reporting, producing and presenting programmes, along with news features and documentaries. He has worked extensively in South Asia and has specialist knowledge of the region's politics, social affairs, religion and culture.
In 2000 Sanjiv was awarded Best UK Radio Journalist at the EMMA Awards
.
In 2008 Sanjiv was awarded a prestigious Sony Radio Academy
Gold Award for his news documentary feature "Britains Missing Girls" which uncovered the hidden practice of female foeticide in the United Kingdom by British born Asians.
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
. He is the North of England Reporter for the BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network is a British radio station serving those originating from and around the Indian subcontinent. The music and news comes out of the main urban areas where there are significant communities with these backgrounds. The station has production centres in Birmingham, Leicester and London...
. Sanjiv has worked for BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC Local Radio service for the English metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.- Frequencies :It broadcasts from its studios at St...
, BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC Local Radio service for the county of Lancashire, in North West England. It began as BBC Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971 on 96.4FM, then adding 854 kHz AM in 1972 and changing to its current name on 4 July 1981...
, has been head of Asian Programmes for BBC North West
BBC North West
BBC North West is the BBC English Region serving Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Walsden in West Yorkshire, the Isle of Man , north-west Derbyshire, the Yorkshire Dales including Settle and Ribblesdale, and southern Cumbria.BBC North West television output is also broadcast in...
and has worked for the BBC's Investigation Unit. Sanjiv has produced TV reports for BBC North West Tonight and BBC Look North.
Sanjiv has experience in researching, reporting, producing and presenting programmes, along with news features and documentaries. He has worked extensively in South Asia and has specialist knowledge of the region's politics, social affairs, religion and culture.
In 2000 Sanjiv was awarded Best UK Radio Journalist at the EMMA Awards
EMMA
EMMA is an Organization which raises awareness of discrimination through media campaigns, social networking, and the EMMA Awards....
.
In 2008 Sanjiv was awarded a prestigious Sony Radio Academy
Radio Academy
The Radio Academy is a registered charity that is dedicated to 'the encouragement, recognition and promotion of excellence in UK broadcasting and audio production'....
Gold Award for his news documentary feature "Britains Missing Girls" which uncovered the hidden practice of female foeticide in the United Kingdom by British born Asians.