Vartika Nanda

Vartika Nanda is a journalist in India.

Nanda has worked with Zee News,Star News, NDTV, Lok Sabha TV and is Programming Head for Sahara Samay News Network. She is the recipient of the Bharatendu Harishchandra Award for the year 2005. Bharatendu Harishchandra Awards are given by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting since 1983 to promote original writings in Hindi on journalism and mass communications. Nanda has been given the award for her book, “Television aur Apraadh Patrkarita”. The book intended for those who wish to make a career in the field of television journalism and crime reporting, tells the reader everything about television journalism right from the very basic. Vartika Nanda also has contributed to the book, “Making News” edited by IPS officer Uday Sahay, who is Director, Information and Publicity, Government of Delhi. 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 has written the article, “Television Crime Reporting in India”, in the book.

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, Punjab in 1991-92. From there on she worked for DD Jalandhar for some time, where she was the youngest anchor, before joining Zee TV. She worked with Zee for one and an half year and then joined an organization that later become the best 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 Pronnoy Roy’s crime reporter. After this she taught at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication for three years. She was the Associate Professor, Television Journalism. In 2004, she organized a Specialized Media Course for Civil Service Officers' at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, Mussorie. 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 Samay News Network as Programming Head. The network offers five regional 24x7 news channels catering to millions and millions of Hindi speaking viewers in the states of U.P./Uttarakhand, M.P./Chattisgarh, Bihar/Jharkhand, Delhi/NCR and Mumbai. Additionally the network also offers 'Samay', a 24-hr national news channel broadcast in over 66 countries. Vartika Nanda will be heading the programming of all these channels.

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. In 2007, she also received the Sudha Patrakarita Samman for outstanding writing on media issues. She also holds a certificate in Change Management conducted by the Commonwealth Broadcast Association in 2008.

Vartika Nanda regularly writes on media and related issues in almost all major English and Hindi newspapers. She is unfazed by the popularity and the position she holds. She firmly believes that hard work and honest intentions are the ingredients to success.

External links

* [http://vartikananda.com/ Official Web Site]
* [http://pib.nic.in/release/rel_print_page.asp?relid=27467 PIB Press Release]
* [http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2007/newsfullstory.php?id=1179901781 Television Point]
* [http://www.hindu.com/mp/2004/05/27/stories/2004052700270100.htm The Hindu]
* [http://www.saharaindiapariwar.org/index.html] Sahara India Pariwar Website