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London Area, United Kingdom

Part of India editorial liaison team working towards safeguarding editorial standards, supporting planning and commissioning. Key role in making sure our India content production teams works effectively with new strategy and operating model in BBC world service.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

My primary responsibilities are planning, commissioning and producing stand out, impact driven editorial content that bring true value to our English and regional languages audience around the world. I deliver the very best of our journalism to Indian audiences in Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi and Telugu, as well as to the wider BBC English output. A big part of my role is to collaborate with various editorial departments at the BBC as well as other stakeholders via business development, marketing and communications. I have a reputation at the BBC for my 'can do' and 'get things done' attitude. I create win-win situations for all to perform, gain and thrive in the organisation. I along with the rest of my team are open minded in spotting untold stories, stories with potential for underserved audience, to work with our correspondents in finding exciting unique opportunities for original and exceptional journalistic content.Our success lies in bringing value to our loyal audience, reaching new untapped young and women audience and create impact through our work of reporting original stories. We achieve this by cleverly pairing the best story ideas from the reporters across the department with emerging digital formats of storytelling to reach new young and women audience and engage them with our wider editorial offers.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I took charge of planning East Asia region on a temporary basis while we were reshaping our operating model at the BBC world service which is fully geared to be digital first. As part of this role, I took care of the daily news agenda for the six East Asian language services - Burmese, Chinese, Thai, Indonesia, Korean and Vietnamese. I was leading planning and pitching of long term features content and big news events like the Taiwan election, Chinese new year, Indonesia and South Korean election, China’s annual two sessions, developments in Myanmar amid ongoing fighting between the military junta and armed resistance groups. In this role I took charge of pitching content from each of these language services for wider sharing among the 42 language services and wider English output at BBC news. As part of this role, I have establishing strong bonds with colleagues at our East Asian bureaus in South Korea, Jakarta, Bangkok, Yangon and Hong Kong.

London, England, United Kingdom

In this two-months long development opportunity, I took charge of planning for all 42 world service languages at BBC world service. During this period, I commissioned and pitched content that stood outas editorial offers for BBC world service and the global BBC news output. I was relied upon for innovative ideas and approachesto cover big news events, timely commissioning of search driven content and making sure ourcontent travels as far and wide within the organization for better reach. During this period, I also managed a planning team of news editors based in London and India.

London, England, United Kingdom

This was a work attachment to be based at our London headquarters and also the world's biggest newsroom - the New broadcasting house. During this attachment at our London office, I was leading BBC's coverage of Indian general election in 2019 hand in hand with various editors and programme producers. A big part of this role was to plan and execute the coverage for BBC's English output along with my colleagues and editors at our London office.My role involved remote producing content with colleagues in India, then make sure all the rich content produced in India for our India audience travels to BBC's wider outlets that cater to global and domestic UK audience. I was chosen to be on this attachment for my in-depth and clear understanding of the strengths and expertise of my colleagues in India and how to match that with BBC's various programme outlets in London. This attachment was a memorable one in my career at the BBC. It was highly fulfilling as I could bring the best value to our coverage of India with the help of the expertise we have built at our India operation. I also ended up filing my own reports from London for our audience in India, diaspora audience in UK and for our world outlets.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

In this role, I was the sole producer of the BBC's flagship weekly business show called 'India Business Report'. As the producer of this weekly programme, I was responsible to produce India business stories for our world audience on TV, radio and online. On a day-to-day basis, I used to independently come up with story ideas of news features and interviews that will reflect on the business trends in India for our global viewers. Covering big business developments in India was a big part of this role too. As part of this role, I have also produced panel discussions for BBC's 'Talking Business' programme which brings together big business leaders, government spokespersons, ministers and analysts to discuss on big business topics and current affairs. I have secured and produced several exclusive interviews with Indian business leaders, Indian finance ministers, former bureaucrats, Indian central bank governors and interesting new entrepreneurs. Along with the focus on business, I along with my team would also step in to do newsgathering i:e file on big breaking news stories from western and southern India. We would file for TV, radio and online.I have also produced documentaries from Mumbai while I was in this role. One of the best experience of working in this role was a documentary we did on Indian railways for BBC Two. It can now be found on Netflix. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02xtt6jMy column on what it is like to commute in some of the world's busiest trains is a fun and thrilling read https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5m79Sm4dkNtrJsk9dX9HqhT/my-super-dense-crush-load-commuteOverall, this role involved being flexible to do anything to support our multi-media production along with strong editorial judgement, people skills, understanding of how to deal with bureaucracy to help get things done for Live and recorded output. Also, how to secure exclusive and rare access to places and people.

New York, United States

I was on a work attachment to work from our New York bureau for a month. My primary job here was to produce business news and features for BBC’s global facing radio, TV and online outlets. It involved generating ideas, pre production, producing correspondents and managing filming on the ground, then looking after edits till the final stage of the delivery of stories. I was working with our North American business correspondents and bureau chief at this bureau.

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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