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Abhinandan Sekhri

Abhinandan Sekhri (born 4 August 1974) is the co-founder and CEO of Newslaundry, a media critique, news and current affairs website.[1][2]

Abhinandan Sekhri
Abhinandan Sekhri
Born1974 (age 49–50)
NationalityIndian
Alma materWelham Boys' School
The Doon School
University of Delhi
Occupation(s)Journalist
Producer, director, actor
Known forCo-founder of Newslaundry
Producer, Highway on My Plate

Education

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Sekhri was educated at the Welham Boys' School and then The Doon School in Dehradun, India. He obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi.[3][4]

Career

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Before founding Newslaundry, he worked as a producer, director and writer in television and film projects, including Highway on my Plate,[5] which he co-produced and directed; and news-satire show Gustaakhi Maaf.[6] He was also a co-founder and trustee in Delhi-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) PCRF.[7] He was the executive producer for Chase, a documentary series by ScoopWhoop. He regularly delivers lectures and hosts panel discussions on journalism, RTI, and the importance and independence of media.

Newstrack and AajTak (1996–1999)

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In April 1996, he started working as a correspondent for TV Today Network.[8] He reported for Newstrack, a weekly current affairs programme, and for the evening bulletin of Aaj Tak, along with morning show Good Morning Today.

Production, direction and writing career & Small Screen (2000–2014)

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He worked as a camera assistant[9] on Mira Nair’s award-winning feature film Monsoon Wedding which was a Mirabai production. Monsoon Wedding went on to win the 2002 British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film – Foreign Language.[10] He then worked as Assistant Director[11] on Filhaal (2000), an Indian feature film produced by Jhamu Sugandh and directed by Meghna Gulzar.

He produced, scripted and co-directed documentary film Chadar along with Prashant Sareen on a winter trade route in the Zanskar valley of Ladakh. Chadar went on to win the Best Travel Documentary Award at the EVEO Spring Fest, 2000 at San Francisco[12] and received a Special Jury Prize at Okinawa, Japan in 2001.[12] He went on to produce and direct several other documentary films including Goonj, a six part series on innovations in agriculture and Daring to Dream, a documentary film about three children in rural Rajasthan. He co-directed and co-scripted documentary films Shared Spaces[13] (a film on religious diversity) and Temples of Water[14] (a documentary film on the water harvesting movement in Rajasthan). Temples of Water was screened at the UNESCO - PSBT Documentary film festival in Delhi in August 2003.[15]

In 2000, Sekhri co-founded Small Screen,[16] a[17] Delhi-based agency that provides audio video production services for television, digital and film-based platforms. Sekhri was the Chief script writer for Double Take and Gustakhi Maaf,[6] a political satire show that aired on NDTV. The show won awards at the Indian Television Academy Awards (2004) and the Indian Telly Awards (2004).[18]

He was the producer, director and scriptwriter for Highway on my Plate[5] which was a travel and food show that ran from 2007 to 2011 on NDTV Good Times. The show won the 'Best Travel Show' at the Indian Telly Awards, 2008.[19] In 2013, Sekhri co-produced Jai Hind with Rocky and Mayur,[20] a show about life in the Armed Forces. He was also the director of the 2014 six-part series, Vital Stats of India[21] on the History Channel, that presented information about India and Indians.

Newslaundry (2012–present)

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In 2012, Sekhri, along with Madhu Trehan, Roopak Kapoor and Prashant Sareen, founded Newslaundry, a media critique, news and current affairs website. The news organisation does not carry advertisements and runs on a subscription-based model.[22] Newslaundry's Manisha Pande, along with Sandeep Pai won the 2015 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for investigative reporting. Abhinandan is currently the full-time CEO of Newslaundry.

References

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  1. ^ Bamzai, Kaveree (22 December 2018). "The journey of BJP's Sambit Patra from a trained surgeon to a nasty TV star".
  2. ^ Bansal, Shuchi (27 October 2016). "The big digital paywall question". Livemint.
  3. ^ "Speakers | Tackling Insurgent Ideologies 2.0". ORF.
  4. ^ Sekhri, Abhinandan. "The Boys Boarding Bogey". Newslaundry.
  5. ^ a b Kumar, Anuj (3 September 2011). "Singh on the street!". The Hindu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Sunetra Choudhury: All the inside juice from Anna's reality show | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. 27 August 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Public Cause Research Foundation | About | People's empowerment through transparent, accountable governance". www.pcrf.in. Archived from the original on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  8. ^ "Pragyan 16 - Abhinandan Sekhri". www.pragyan.org. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  9. ^ Shah, Naseeruddin; Dubey, Lillete; Shetty, Shefali; Raaz, Vijay (26 April 2002), Monsoon Wedding, retrieved 31 March 2017
  10. ^ BIFA (24 October 2002). "Best Foreign Independent - Foreign language - Nominations - Awards 2002 - BIFA - The British Independent Film Awards". www.bifa.film. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  11. ^ Tabu, Meghna; Sen, Sushmita; Suri, Sanjay; Sen, Palash (1 February 2002), Filhaal..., retrieved 31 March 2017
  12. ^ a b "Vatavaran 2003: Festival Entries". www.cmsvatavaran.org. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  13. ^ PSBT India (21 December 2016), "Shared Spaces", YouTube, retrieved 31 March 2017
  14. ^ PSBT India (21 December 2016), "Temples of Water", YouTube, retrieved 31 March 2017
  15. ^ "UNESCO - PSBT Documentary film festival". Archived from the original on 3 November 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  16. ^ Small Screen
  17. ^ "Awards | Small Screen". small-screen.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  18. ^ "The Indian Telly Awards 2004 : The Statuette". tellyawards.indiantelevision.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  19. ^ "NDTV Good Times, a winner all the way! – NDTV". goodtimes.ndtv.com. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  20. ^ Jai Hind with Rocky and Mayur
  21. ^ "Vital Stats of India". Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  22. ^ "About Newslaundry". Newslaundry. Archived from the original on 6 January 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
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