Vartika Nanda
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Vartika Nanda
Dr. Vartika Nanda's core expertise lies in journalism
- its teaching, practice and training. With a PhD degree by her side in Journalism, she is currently a permanent member of the teaching faculty as Head of the Department in the Department of Journalism in Lady Shri Ram College
of Delhi University in India
. Nanda has also taught TV journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication
as Associate Professor for three years.
Nanda has held various journalistic assignments in Zee News
,NDTV
, Lok Sabha TV and Sahara India Media. She sneaked into print journalism while her engagement as a Joint Editor of a magazine, Sablog. As a regular columnist she contributed for over two years to The Pioneer and Hindi Outlook
till 2007. She continues contributing columns to three leading national dailies as freelancer. Presently, she is the Associate Editor with a quarterly, Communication Today.
On training front, she has held media training of stingers and budding journalists in TV news medium in Delhi
and also held a number of workshops in Delhi, Jaipur
, Bhopal, Ranchi
, Nainital and Patna
. Her training workshops on anchoring and reporting as well as consultancy to students for their entrance tests to premier media teaching institutes like IIMC, JAMIA, ASJ etc are increasingly becoming popular. She is also one of the trainer training school teachers on teaching media. This is organized by CIET, NCERT to popularize media literacy
.
Nanda is the recipient of the Bharatendu Harishchandra
Award for the year 2005. Bharatendu Harishchandra Awards are given by India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
since 1983 to promote original writings in Hindi on journalism and mass communication
s. Nanda has been given the award for her book, Television aur Apraadh Patrkarita. In 2007, she received the Sudha Patrakarita Samman for outstanding writing on media issues. Vartika Nanda also has contributed to the book, Making News edited by Uday Sahay
. The book published by Oxford University Press
contains a series of articles on the state of media in India and the various genres of journalism. Nanda’s article in the book is titled as, Television Crime Reporting in India.
As a member of the NCERT text book committee on media studies, she co-authored a chapter on Understanding Media for class XI in the year 2010.
Nanda had her initial education in Punjab. In her school days, she authored a compilation of poems titled, Madhur Dastak (1989). She won many laurels at the school and college level. Notable among them being First Prize in Story Competition conducted by Dainik Tribune and Himachal Pradesh
Government and also a Special Prize in Story Competition held by Language Department, Punjabi University
, Patiala in 1991-92. In the year 1990, she received the Prem Chand Silver Medal Award by Punjab University. She was also the youngest anchor for DD Jalandhar for almost a decade.
Nanda worked with Zee for one and an half year (1994-1996) and then joined an organization that later become the leading news channel in the country - NDTV. She worked with NDTV for 8 years and before she quit, she was the Chief of Crime Bureau. She had become a house hold name and was commonly known as Prannoy Roy
’s crime reporter. After this she taught at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication for three years - as Associate Professor, Television Journalism. In 2004, she organized a Specialized Media Course for Civil Service Officers' at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, Mussoorie
. The academy trains Civil Servants. She also organized a Media Training Workshop for Coast Guard Officers' at IIMC, New Delhi
. The same year, she conducted a specialized course on Handling Media in Crisis for Senior Railway Officers' at IIMC, Dhenkanal
, Orissa
.
In 2006, she joined the world’s first television channel to be run by the Parliament of a country, Lok Sabha TV as the Executive Producer. She played an instrumental role in setting up and running the channel. She, in addition to her responsibilities as an Executive Producer, used to anchor one of the most popular programmes of Lok Sabha TV, Sansad Se Sadak Tak. In March 2008, she joined Sahara India Media as Programming Head of all the news channels of Sahara India Media
, including 'Samay', a 24-hr national news channel which broadcasts in over 66 countries.
Nanda travelled to Germany
in 2007 as a delegate of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (India). The objective was to promote Indo-German Strategic Partnership and Media Education. She was also part of the Young Leaders Forum (India) to explore possibilities of strategic partnership between EU-India and visited Brussels
(Belgium
) in 2008 as a part of this program. She also holds a certificate in Change Management
conducted by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
in 2008.
She has co-authored a book with Uday Sahay titled Media aur Jansamvad published by Samayik Prakashan in 2009.
In 2010, Rajkamal Prakashanpublished her book titled Television aur Crime Reporting. She has published her book 'Marjani' ( a compilation of Hindi poems) in 2011. This is her fifth book.
Dr. Vartika Nanda's core expertise lies in journalism
Journalism
Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...
- its teaching, practice and training. With a PhD degree by her side in Journalism, she is currently a permanent member of the teaching faculty as Head of the Department in the Department of Journalism in Lady Shri Ram College
Lady Shri Ram College for Women
Lady Shri Ram College for Women , is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. It is recognized as one of the premier women's institutions for liberal arts education in India.It isalso known as the Wellesley of the East....
of Delhi University in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Nanda has also taught TV journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication
Indian Institute of Mass Communication
The Indian Institute of Mass Communication is India's premier media school funded and promoted by the Government of India. IIMC is an autonomous society under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The institution was established on August 17, 1965 with support from UNESCO.-The...
as Associate Professor for three years.
Nanda has held various journalistic assignments in Zee News
Zee News
Zee News, the news and current affairs channel, is the oldest channel of Zee News Ltd, founded in 1992. It was the first 24-hour Hindi current affairs and news channel in India. In spite of being the only pay channel in its genre, it maintains its position among the top three Hindi news channels in...
,NDTV
NDTV
NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...
, Lok Sabha TV and Sahara India Media. She sneaked into print journalism while her engagement as a Joint Editor of a magazine, Sablog. As a regular columnist she contributed for over two years to The Pioneer and Hindi Outlook
Outlook (magazine)
Outlook is one of India's four top-selling English weekly newsmagazines. Like many other Indian magazines, it is reluctant to reveal its circulation, but the 2007 National Readership Survey suggested 1.5 million copies...
till 2007. She continues contributing columns to three leading national dailies as freelancer. Presently, she is the Associate Editor with a quarterly, Communication Today.
On training front, she has held media training of stingers and budding journalists in TV news medium in Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
and also held a number of workshops in Delhi, Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....
, Bhopal, Ranchi
Ranchi
-Climate:Ranchi has a humid subtropical climate. However, due to its position and the forests around the city, it is known for its pleasant climate. Its climate is the primary reason why Ranchi was once the summer capital of the undivided State of Bihar...
, Nainital and Patna
Patna
Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...
. Her training workshops on anchoring and reporting as well as consultancy to students for their entrance tests to premier media teaching institutes like IIMC, JAMIA, ASJ etc are increasingly becoming popular. She is also one of the trainer training school teachers on teaching media. This is organized by CIET, NCERT to popularize media literacy
Media literacy
Media literacy is a repertoire of competences that enable people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres, and forms.-Education:...
.
Nanda is the recipient of the Bharatendu Harishchandra
Bharatendu Harishchandra
Bharatendu Harishchandra is known as the father of modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. He is considered one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India. A recognized poet, he was also a trend setter in Hindi prose-writing...
Award for the year 2005. Bharatendu Harishchandra Awards are given by India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is a branch of the Government of India is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to information, broadcasting, the press and films in India....
since 1983 to promote original writings in Hindi on journalism and mass communication
Mass communication
Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of the various means by which individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time...
s. Nanda has been given the award for her book, Television aur Apraadh Patrkarita. In 2007, she received the Sudha Patrakarita Samman for outstanding writing on media issues. Vartika Nanda also has contributed to the book, Making News edited by Uday Sahay
Uday Sahay
Uday Sahay, Uday Sahay, a voluntarily retired IPS officer of 1988 batch of AGMU Cadre, has the unique distinction of serving in media organizations for nearly a decade and setting up communication management and soft skills training companies now, after he spent ten years in active policing as his...
. The book published by Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
contains a series of articles on the state of media in India and the various genres of journalism. Nanda’s article in the book is titled as, Television Crime Reporting in India.
As a member of the NCERT text book committee on media studies, she co-authored a chapter on Understanding Media for class XI in the year 2010.
Nanda had her initial education in Punjab. In her school days, she authored a compilation of poems titled, Madhur Dastak (1989). She won many laurels at the school and college level. Notable among them being First Prize in Story Competition conducted by Dainik Tribune and Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
Government and also a Special Prize in Story Competition held by Language Department, Punjabi University
Punjabi University
Punjabi University, located at Patiala, is one of the premier institutions of higher education in Punjab, India. Panjabi University teaches and researches in science, engineering and technology, humanities, social sciences, performing arts and sports....
, Patiala in 1991-92. In the year 1990, she received the Prem Chand Silver Medal Award by Punjab University. She was also the youngest anchor for DD Jalandhar for almost a decade.
Nanda worked with Zee for one and an half year (1994-1996) and then joined an organization that later become the leading news channel in the country - NDTV. She worked with NDTV for 8 years and before she quit, she was the Chief of Crime Bureau. She had become a house hold name and was commonly known as Prannoy Roy
Prannoy Roy
Prannoy L Roy, Ph.D is an Indian journalist and media journalist. He is the founder and Executive Chairperson of New Delhi Television .-Early life:...
’s crime reporter. After this she taught at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication for three years - as Associate Professor, Television Journalism. In 2004, she organized a Specialized Media Course for Civil Service Officers' at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, Mussoorie
Mussoorie
Mussoorie is a city and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is located about 35 km from the state capital of Dehradun and 290 km north from the national capital of New Delhi...
. The academy trains Civil Servants. She also organized a Media Training Workshop for Coast Guard Officers' at IIMC, New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
. The same year, she conducted a specialized course on Handling Media in Crisis for Senior Railway Officers' at IIMC, Dhenkanal
Dhenkanal, India
Dhenkanal is a city and a municipality in Dhenkanal district in the state of Orissa, India.-Geography:Dhenkanal is located at . It has an average elevation of 80 metres .-Demographics:...
, Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
.
In 2006, she joined the world’s first television channel to be run by the Parliament of a country, Lok Sabha TV as the Executive Producer. She played an instrumental role in setting up and running the channel. She, in addition to her responsibilities as an Executive Producer, used to anchor one of the most popular programmes of Lok Sabha TV, Sansad Se Sadak Tak. In March 2008, she joined Sahara India Media as Programming Head of all the news channels of Sahara India Media
Sahara India Pariwar
Sahara India Pariwar is an Indian multi-business conglomerate with diversified business interests that include financial services, housing finance, mutual funds, life insurance, city development, real estate activities, print and television media, film production, sports, information technology,...
, including 'Samay', a 24-hr national news channel which broadcasts in over 66 countries.
Nanda travelled to Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
in 2007 as a delegate of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (India). The objective was to promote Indo-German Strategic Partnership and Media Education. She was also part of the Young Leaders Forum (India) to explore possibilities of strategic partnership between EU-India and visited Brussels
Brussels
Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
(Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
) in 2008 as a part of this program. She also holds a certificate in Change Management
Change management
Change management is a structured approach to shifting/transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at helping employees to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment....
conducted by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
Founded in 1945, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association is a representative body for public service broadcasters throughout the Commonwealth. A not-for-profit non-government organisation, the CBA is funded by subscriptions from 102 members and affiliates from 53 countries...
in 2008.
She has co-authored a book with Uday Sahay titled Media aur Jansamvad published by Samayik Prakashan in 2009.
In 2010, Rajkamal Prakashanpublished her book titled Television aur Crime Reporting. She has published her book 'Marjani' ( a compilation of Hindi poems) in 2011. This is her fifth book.
External links
- Official Web Site
- PIB Press Release
- Television Point
- The Hindu
- http://www.saharaindiapariwar.org/index.html Sahara India Pariwar Website
- http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/07/15/stories/2008071550180400.htm The Hindu, July 15, 2008
- http://www.fesindia.org/upload/Information%20programme_YLF.pdf FES Invite
- http://www.screenindia.com/old/20001110/tele5.htm Screen India, 2000
- http://www.davidthomasmedia.com/learning/gallery/cba/courses/change_mgt1/trainees.aspx Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
- http://www.ig-fp.org/rep_aug07.htm Indo-German Forum of Parliamentarians, 2007
- http://www.micci.in/pdf/Seminar_Report_2.pdf Seminar on State of Democracy and Role of Media, 2005
- http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/15166/MPs-sing-way-New-Year.html Lok Sabha TV
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5tjwoc4ZHc Lecture at a media school
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FETauD4JsFw&feature=related Launch of the book, "Television and Crime Reporting"
- http://www.hindustantimes.com/Have-a-nose-for-news/Article1-549008.aspx Hindustan Time's interview
- http://www.televisionpoint.com/news/print.php?id=1135557640 Making News Book Details
- http://hcilondon.in/pdf/hindi_conference.pdf- Release of "Marjani" in UK