Quiz any wannabe journalist about whom they consider to be their ‘idol’ and perhaps this is the name that you will hear the most. The daughter of one of Delhi’s first women reporters, Prabha Dutt, Barkha has been around, breaking and covering major news stories almost since the very advent of broadcast journalism in India. Equipped with a Bachelor’s degree in English from the prestigious St. Stephen’s college, she went on to do her Master’s in Mass Communication from one of the most reputed journalism school of our country, Jamia Milia Islamia University. She further obtained another Master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She started off with Star News, and later went on to join NDTV, where currently she is working as the Managing Editor. She has juggled the roles of an anchor and a reporter with equal panache. She was widely appreciated and acclaimed for her courageous and exemplary reportage during the Kargil War, in the year 1999. She has addressed major issues as an anchor through her television shows like We The People and Reality Bites on NDTV 24X7.
Barkha has been conferred with several awards and felicitations because of her work, some of which include, The Inlaks Scholarship in 1997, Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award (2005-2006), The Chameli Devi Award for the Best Woman Journalist, The Kostas Kyriazis – Greece’s most prestigious journalism award among others.
2 comments:
very very well-deserved and well said. She rocks! She has proved it once again, that women are capable of doing anything to bring about a positive change in the world around! may her tribe increase!
This lady has really been striving for our sake. She has changed the world of journalism. Even i get inspired by her! Hat's off to her!
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