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Shubhranshu Choudhary
Date of Birth : 15/2/1969
Contact
312, Patrakar Parisar
Vasundhara Sector –5
E mail : smitashu@gmail.com
Firsts to the credit in News reporting :
·
First TV pictures of
foreign militants in operation in Indian
· First TV interview with Chief Commander of Kashmiri militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen
·
First TV pictures of
landlord army in North Indian state of
·
First TV pictures of
militant camps in
·
First TV pictures of Naga
military in operation in North- East India
First TV pictures of Indian Maoists (Naxalites) for a foreign TV channel
Work Experience -summary:
Eight years as bimedia producer ( TV and radio) with the BBC South Asia Bureau
based at
· Managing coverage of major news events in the region eg elections, natural disasters, etc
· Producing major BBC documentaries from the region
· one year of Television reporting for BBC Hindi, Home TV Broadcasts
· Periodic features and news reporting for BBC Hindi, Urdu and Bengali radio programmes.
Two years with The Guardian, South Asia Bureau,
Five years with a Hindi language Daily Deshbandhu in Central Indian state of Chhattisgarh
One year of grassroots activism with Save the Narmada Movement
Educational qualifications & courses
Train the Trainer Course, BBC 2004
· Radio Editing course, BBC 2002
· Nuclear Chemical and Biological warfare journalism course, 2000
·
A course on radio documentary making in Radio
· English Writing Skill course from British Council , 1998
· Hostile environment and Battlefield first aid course conducted by BBC ,1997
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· TV documentary course ,BBC ,1996
· DV camera course in BBC, 1996
· Radio Journalism course BBC, 1995
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Bachelor Of Science,
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Higher Secondary School Certificate , MadhyaPradesh
Board of Secondary Education,1984
Details of work experience, responsibilities and achievements
Job Title: South Asia
Producer with BBC South
from September1996 to June 2003.
Responsibility/
· Identifying story ideas for television and radio
· Strategizing operations within the region
· selling to London Desk for funds
· field production
· ensuring timely execution through tailored teams within agreed budgets
· planning and executing special news events
· editing radio stories
Main Achievements
· maintaining the right balance between creative and reactive news stories from the region
· successful coverage of special events eg
·
State and National elections in
· elections in other south Asian countries,
· Indo Pak summits,
· natural disasters
· Year ending special programmes
·
inclusion of development related features from
the region. A film produced by me for BBC World TV was shown in a Film
Festival in
· Successful innovative implementation of special LIVE programmes involving
· securing permissions from the authorities,
· estimating costs
· co-ordination between delivery and commissioning teams.
(The idea of hooking the camera to the feed
machine at the feed point, without bringing in BBC flyaways was an
experiment that worked successfully in
· Managing the shift to the integrated approach between domestic and World Service successfully to cater to domestic and international audience needs simultaneously, for better economics as a team.
Job Title: Researcher cum Production Assistant with BBC South
From Feb 1995- August 1996
Responsibility
Identifying story ideas and helping in implementation
Main Achievements
· Selection of ideas which resulted in several award winning documentaries.
·
Proactive role played by me encouraged management to abolish
the post of
Job Title: Reporter
for The Guardian ,
From June 1993 - Feb 1995
Responsibility
Assisting the Bureau Chief of The Guardian- for
the
Main Achievements
While doing what was required of me in the job, used the opportunity to learn from the bureau chief who had been in the BBC radio, and made a number of packages for BBC language section, which later led to my joining the BBC full time.
Job Title: Activist with
Save Narmada Movement, an environmental Movement in Western region of
From April 1992- May 1993
Responsibility
Mass mobilisation, and management of information.
Main Achievements
Motivation and organisation of the marginalized farmers with minimal resources.
Job Title Reporter for Deshbandhu newspaper in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
From Sept 1987 - March 1992
Responsibility
Sub editing news
Main Achievements
Was given charge of seven of sixteen pages of the newspaper- mainly news and opinion by the end of my tenure
Significant other activities undertaken
·
Working currently as South Asia Correspondent for Reporters
San Frontiers, a journalist’s Right Organisation headquartered in
· Recently I was successful in getting a Burmese journalist released from Indian jails by triggering off a media campaign.
· We are running an active campaign to secure better access to Indian and Pakistani journalists in respective countries but not with much success till now.
·
Contributing to hindi newspapers to be in touch
with local issues from States mainly in
· Carrying out research for independent film making projects.
·
Participating actively in upcoming Community Radio
movement in
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Active member of Community Media Movement in
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Attended AIDS Conference 2000 held in
·
selected by a German Health NGO to study their work in
the field of Reproductive Health in
Some Features Produced
· New Farming, Old Tools : 24 mins, BBC ( A film on how new technology is not helping change traditional exploitative practices)
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Referees
1. David Loyn, BBC Developing World Correspondent; david.loyn@bbc.co.uk
2 Adrian Wells, Foreign Editor, Sky News : adrian.wells@bskyb.com
3 Peter Barron, Editor,BBC Newsnight- peter.barron@bbc.co.uk
4 Fred Scott ,Video producer BBC , greasy-grass@beeb.net
5. Alan Rusbridger, Editor, The Guardian - alan.rusbridger@guardian.co.uk
