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Helmed Digital Health News (DHN). My contributions in editorial leadership and content strategy has empowered the platform to become a beacon in health tech journalism. Led several commercial & non-commercial partnerships, team building & training, delivered conferences, newsletter, training on news and long format storytelling, social media content among others.

1. News hunting, assigning, editing and packaging each piece with apt headline, story positioning and yes no errors2. Be on alert for what's happening around during the working hours so that important development does not go unnoticed3. Handling a team of smart, talented journalists-giving them work, checking and finalising those work and also addressing any delay happening in publishing the same4. Addressing team queries, late log-ins, leaves, issues related to work etc5… Show more 1. News hunting, assigning, editing and packaging each piece with apt headline, story positioning and yes no errors2. Be on alert for what's happening around during the working hours so that important development does not go unnoticed3. Handling a team of smart, talented journalists-giving them work, checking and finalising those work and also addressing any delay happening in publishing the same4. Addressing team queries, late log-ins, leaves, issues related to work etc5. Actively available on 6-7 platforms simultaneously to check for fresh industry updates, managing workflow, plagiarism, headline positioning, storyline discussion etc. Show less

The experience helped finding the creative streaks in me. Got a free hand in churning out technical, dull pieces into an interesting read. Learned the other side of journalism by helping the projects team with press releases, thought leadership articles, speech, social posts etc that added flavors to my core responsibilities.

Enjoyed writing retail and consumer related journalistic pieces along with editing daily bit of macroeconomic developments.

As an editorial head for the division, I led the platform with apt news, stories, posts, ideas to maintain its numero-uno position. Introduced Webinar and Video Interviews during my stint there.

Was editorial head for Retailer Media.

As Chief Sub Editor I was heading restaurantindia.com, the digital magazine on food, restaurant and the hotel industry.

1. Was responsible to plan the monthly publication – eHEALTH, published by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd (Sister Company of CSDMS). Pagination, setting deadlines, work allocation, editing, team handling etc were the core responsibilities. Was solely responsible to build the magazine from issue plan stage to checking final color print outs and sending to press2. Led eHealth conferences in Hyderabad, in the year 2012 & 2013. Responsibilities included: theme selection, agenda finalisation… Show more 1. Was responsible to plan the monthly publication – eHEALTH, published by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd (Sister Company of CSDMS). Pagination, setting deadlines, work allocation, editing, team handling etc were the core responsibilities. Was solely responsible to build the magazine from issue plan stage to checking final color print outs and sending to press2. Led eHealth conferences in Hyderabad, in the year 2012 & 2013. Responsibilities included: theme selection, agenda finalisation, speaker confirmations, session briefs, profiles editing and putting on social pages 3. Led a separate team responsible for such events, finalising different conference banners, leaflets, microsites etc with a team of graphic designers. Show less

Was responsible for print and online editorial contribution in the first 12 months for DARE and later on for Technology Review India (MIT publication).

Writing articles for two leading B2B magazines, The Franchising World and The Retailer. Selecting and writing web features for the respective online readers. Collating inputs from relevant sources- which included fixing and conducting interviews, follow ups and teleconferences.Writing news features on new launches, business expansion plans and interviews for both web and print version.