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Melville, New York, United States

Melville, New York

Melville

Currently real estate editor.

New York, NY

Edited news and wire stories for the newspaper’s website, writing SEO heads and packaging stories for the Web.

New York, NY

Edited local and wire copy for New York City's largest-circulated free newspaper.

New York, NY

Played critical role in editing and improving stories, writing SEO headlines, editing photo galleries and databases for Newsday’s new website serving Westchester, Rockland and four other counties in the Hudson Valley. Doubled up as content editor and web producer on Saturday nights and wrote breaking news stories. Praised for helping conceive and develop.

Neptune, N.J.

• Played critical role in editing front-page stories, heads, cut lines and quotes for four Gannett dailies – Asbury Park Press, Home News Tribune, Courier-News and Daily Record – on the Universal Desk, formed in 2009 as.
• Enhanced the quality of poorly written pieces with rewrites, after consulting reporters.
• Commended for seamlessly managing Sunday business section, stepping in as business editor from time to time.

• Vigorously covered the South Asian community for the second-largest paper serving South Asians in the U.S., and Desi Talk, a free newspaper for South Asians in the tristate area.
• Efficiently organized the local and wire sections, paginating them on QuarkXPress.

• Seamlessly ran a five-member team covering accidents, crime and courts, editing and posting breaking news updates and reports for the Web and newspaper. As Saturday metro editor, remained on top of weekend live coverage.
• Led the news team as metro editor and business editor, from time to time, assigning stories, holding news meetings.
• Commended for persistence and creativity in organizing monthly “How To” series helping readers navigate complexities of modern life.
• Excelled in… Show more
• Excelled in planning and executing enterprise packages, including coverage of Shore storms, back-to-school features, Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month and Chinese New Year.
• Outstanding work in organizing community roundtables to get feedback and brainstorm ideas.

• Ran tight ship as nightly breaking news editor Tuesday through Saturday in the intensely competitive South Jersey-Philadelphia news market, posting stories on the Web.
• Led teams covering the environment, Jersey Shore, courts, and law enforcement.
• Won a “Rising Star” award for dynamic leadership and meticulous editing of stories on the anthrax attack at a South Jersey postal distribution center in the aftermath of 9/11.
• Lead editor on a “1,000-year storm” package, which won a… Show more
• Lead editor on a “1,000-year storm” package, which won a Gannett “Well-Done” award.
• Praised for conceiving and editing Shore adventure sports series, which won a Gannett “Well-Done” award. Show less

Smoothly ran the “Community, Health and Social Issues” team when the paper was trying out a configuration of topical rather than geographical beats, helping improve reporters’ productivity and morale.

• Sharpened my crisis-handling skills as I helped manage a nine-member copy desk and worked as slot editor four days a week, with sole charge of the newsroom on Sundays. Edited copy, paginated on QuarkXPress.
• Produced single-handed a readers guide to life in the Mid-Hudson region, commended as one of the paper’s best.
• Gained immensely from a workshop on compelling storytelling at the American Press Institute, Reston, Va.

Thoroughly covered community, business news and the United Nations during this three-year stint with the English language weekly, the leading source of information for South Asians in the U.S., and India Abroad News Service, which fed by daily satellite transmission 40 newspapers in India.

Reported extensively on political, social and economic trends and developments for this English language color weekly newsmagazine, one of India's leading publications then. Wrote about the unrest in Punjab and the activities of political extremists.

Traveled and reported extensively on a variety of topics, including the hunt for Phoolan Devi, a female bandit, alleged police atrocities on villagers, rural starvation and the cult of eunuchs in western India. Edited copy and laid out pages for this biweekly English color newsmagazine.

Learned the ropes under M.J. Akbar, one of India’s top editors, as a copy editor in this weekly newsmagazine. Exposed witchcraft, police violence and child labor in the slate pencil mines of central India that prompted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to order strict enforcement of safety laws in the mines, where workers were exposed to silicosis.

Knight Journalism Fellowship, Reuter/John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship

Activities and Societies: Audited courses in fiction writing, the English novel, Asian American literature, computer science, Greek drama.

Bachelor Of Arts (Honors), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Participated in activities of the Political Science Association

Indian School Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Math, English And Hindi

Activities and Societies: N.C.C. air wing

Education record