Santosh Bhartiya

Santosh Bhartiya

Journalist
Born Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Editor-in-chief of Chauthi Duniya[1]
Years active 1970 – present
Notable credit(s) Chauthi Duniya
Website santoshbhartiya.com

Santosh Bhartiya (born 26-03-1950) is a journalist credited for revolutionizing the nature and approach of present-day television scenario in India, especially election coverage, by making it people-centric from leader and political party-centric.

Career

Santosh Bhartiya started his journalistic career as Special Correspondent in Hindi weekly RAVIVAR, a prestigious and popular publication of Anand Bazar Patrika. Santosh Bhartiya did the first ever interview of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi and wrote about the Phoolan and Vikram Mallah. After that he joined The Telegraph, an esteemed English daily of the same group. Santosh Bhartiya became one of the first TV journalists of India when he joined DOORDARSHAN for the first news and current affairs program, News Line. he became Chief Editor of Chauthi Duniya, the first Sunday newspaper in the history of Hindi journalism, which not only set a milestone in Indian journalism but was also considered as a trendsetter in the field of Hindi Journalism. He also became the member of PRESS COUNCIL OF INDIA. Bhartiya started a news agency HEADLINE WORLD. This news agency had the membership of all the non-metro newspapers of India. He also worked as Consulting Editor of H.I.F.E, the news and feature agency, which represents about 3000 newspapers of the country. It was his idea of directly involving the voter and common people, which he implemented during the assembly election of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi and Chhattisgarh in the year 2003. This pioneer endeavor of Bhartiya compelled all the other TV channels to follow suit during the Lok Sabha Election of 2004.

Political career

Bhartiya was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha of Indian Parliament in 1989 from the Farrukhabad Constituency of Uttar Pradesh and became the Member of Parliament. His sojourn with politics was for a short span of time and he again returned to his old calling journalism.

Social movement activity

Bhartiya accompanied renowned social activists Anna Hazare and General VK Singh on Jantantra Yatra across the country. He traveled 28,000 km, addressing 2.50 crore people through 750 public meetings. He played a crucial role in taking this social movement forward and making it a success.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.chauthiduniya.com/author/editorchauthiduniya
  1. चौथी दुनिया (हिंदी का पहला साप्ताहिक अख़बार) के प्रमुख संपादक
  2. Editor In Chief Chauthi Duniya
  3. Santosh Bhartiya at Zoominfo , Chairman
  4. Santosh Bhartiya - Ankush Capital
  5. After protest, Maulana Jauhar Award conferred upon six people
  6. Santosh Bhartiya gets Aftab-e-Sahafat Award
  7. rajkamalprakashan
  8. national media conference
  9. Santosh Bhartiya on the Board of ASMS - Noida
  10. Session on Media and Entertainment
  11. Santosh Bhartiya on the Board of ASMS
  12. Asian School Of Communication In partnership with University Of Central Lancashire (UK)
  13. Global Film Festival
  14. IOS world Organisation
  15. All Journalist Association
  20. Government Lok Sabha constituency
  21. Re designing India
  22. Indianexpress
  23. Santosh Bhartiya Tweets
  24. 30th All India Ahle Hadees Conference at Delhi’s Ram Leela Ground
  25. Santosh Bhartiya at jantatra Yatra Punjab
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