Media & Communications Consultant
CurrentAnjan Mitra is an independent media and communications consultant specialising in regulatory and government affairs. His company Anjan Mitra & Associates provides consultancy in the media sector to several Indian and international organisations.Anjan, for example, has been, as a consultant, leading for the last 10 years Hong Kong-headquartered Asian industry organisation Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia-Pacific (CASBAA; www.casbaa.com)’s India initiatives representing interests of the organisation and its member-companies active in India’s pay-TV and related telecoms and new media sectors.Before turning a freelance media consultant, Anjan, with a journalistic background of over 20 years, was the Executive Editor of India’s largest media portal, Indiantelevision.com.He also has worked in senior journalistic capacities covering the media, entertainment, telecom and technology (TMT) sectors for publications like The Pioneer, Hindustan Times, India Today and Business Standard since mid-90s exploring the less sexy policy and business sides of entertainment and media in detail. He has, earlier, written for publications like Youth Times, Debonair, Weekend Review, The Sunday Observor, etc.A Bull by birth, Anjan, true to his zodiac sign, considers himself a patient and liberal person, which his friends and relatives sometime dub as obstinacy.
