Pages Editor
Gulf News
Total years of experience :17 years, 4 Months
1. A dynamic professional with more than 15 years of rich cross-cultural experience in Content Development, Content Planning and Team Management, maintaining effective liaison with different sections within the organisation.
2. Adept at planning, editing and supervising the production work for reputed newspapers in India and the UAE.
3. Significant experience in writing and editing content for opinion pieces, features, off-beat stories and reports for newspapers.
5. A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking out of the box, generating new ideas and working with a multicultural team of professionals.
6. Proficient in completing assignments according to set standards regarding order, clarity, precision, style and terminology and meeting stringent production deadlines on a regular basis.
7. Excellent at communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with proven abilities in working in a computerised environment.
2007: Won the SND (Society for News Design) Annual Creative Competition in the category for Special News Topics (Sports/Broadsheet, Internatioal). 2008: Won the SND competition in the Category of Special News Topics (Sports/Broadsheet, Beijing Summer Olympics). 2008: Won the SND competition in the Category of News Design for Pages (Sports/Broadsheet, International). 2009: Won the SND competition in the Category of Special Coverage, Section Pages (Local/Broadsheet). 2012: SND Award for Page Designing. Academic awards: 1 1997: Won the Odissi Films Award for Excellence in Audio-Visual Journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication.