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ALOK VERMA, INDIA
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- NewzStreet.tv
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- Editor-in-Chief
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- Alok is a media industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in newspaper and electronic media. He worked with some of the leading media houses like Amrita Bazar Patrika, The Times of India, Eenadu group, Lokmat Times and Businessworld or almost 15 years before he pioneered into the electronic media. He began his television news career with India’s first broadcast station Zee Network as the Editor for Zee News, the first news bulletin in the private broadcasting domain. Under his Editorship, Zee News became the first 24 hour news channel in the year 1999.
Alok played a key role in Star TV’s New Media, Convergence & Internet strategy as Editor, News & Current Affairs and successfully planned 14 news and current channels on the IPTV platform. As an Executive Producer of the TV Today Network he handled News Operations and also launched English news channel The Headlines Today. As an Executive Producer Special Projects he launched Speed news channel ‘Tez’ and metro news channel ‘Delhi Aaj Tak’. He also conceptualized and launched TV Today Media Institute successfully. Alok has successfully steered Triveni Group’s entry into broadcast media domain by launching one national news and five regional news channels under the brand name ‘Voice of India’ from conceptualization to the launch in record 10 months. He led a team of 300 broadcast professionals.
Known for his strategic brilliance and operational excellence in the media business – print, electronic & new media, with out-of-the-box thinking Alok is known for his futuristic thinking and for uncanny ability to think original and translate ideas to reality with ease. Alok has worked as a member on the panel of UNDP’s Cross Border Media initiative, authored a book on Television news, and innumerable news reports and hundreds of articles and editorials. He has been associated with some of the leading Media schools like Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Indraprastha university, Delhi university, Shimla university, Guru Jambeshwar university to name a few. Alok has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication and Advance Certificate in Journalism from Sofia, Bulgaria. He serves on the board of SOS Villages of India and some of the leading new media companies.
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