Experience

Professional Experience

2005- Current
Special Correspondent with The Times Of India. Responsibilities include producing weekly features and news stories.

2004-2005
International Correspondent with Rapaport Pvt Ltd (www.diamonds.net). Rapaport is an international group and the premiere provider of information services to the diamond, gem and jewelry industry across the globe. I was working for their website (www.diamonds.net) and my beat was reportage of the diamond industry in India/Asia/Africa/Russia. Some of my articles for Rapaport Group can be accessed on http://www.diamonds.net/news/Default.aspx?Author=ketan%20tanna

2003-2004
Freelanced for India Abroad News Service (IANS): www.eians.com

Worked as Documentation Officer with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-Gandhinagar office. I was in charge of documenting all the UNDP programmes launched after the earthquake that devastated Gujarat state (India) in January 2001. I also helped in formulating communication strategies for various seminars and workshops that the UNDP (Gujarat) was associated with. I also partly helped in developing the content of UNDP Gujarat, website.

Part of my UNDP work output can be accessed at http://ketan.net/art12.html

2001- 2003
Freelanced for Mumbai's leading newspaper Mid-Day, and contributed to Education World -- an education magazine.

1996-2001
Worked for five years with THE HINDUSTAN TIMES (Bombay Bureau). Joined in February 1996 as Principal Correspondent. Promoted to the rank of Special Correspondent in 1999 and later made the officiating News Coordinator of The Hindustan Times (Bombay Bureau). Covered day-to-day developments, news, features and occasionally business-related developments in Maharashtra state for half-a-decade.

1994 - 1995:
Worked as THE PIONEER'S Maharashtra State Principal Correspondent. Joined as Senior Correspondent in The Pioneer's New Delhi Bureau. Covered day-to-day events, news and business-related developments for The Pioneer in New Delhi and later in the Bombay Bureau.

1992 - 1994:
Worked as Senior Correspondent in SUNDAY MAGAZINE (New Delhi Bureau). Covered beats such as Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Civil Aviation, BJP, Business and Finance etc.

1990-91:
Worked as New Delhi Correspondent for GENTLEMAN, BUSINESS COMPUTER, and TV & VIDEO WORLD MAGAZINES. (Indian Express Group). Covered news, features, and business and Information Technology events for the magazines. Also worked as Trainee Reporter with COMPUTERS TODAY (India Today's sister publication) and wrote on IT.

1989-90:
Freelanced for: MID-DAY, PATRIOT, LINK MAGAZINE

Education

M.A in Mass communication and Journalism from the Madurai Kamraj University.

Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Government of India, New Delhi. Training center for the Non-Aligned Countries).

B.Com

Skills

Language Skills: Fluent in English, Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi.
Diploma in Web Designing.

References

Bharat Bhushan, Editor, Mail Today and Former Executive Editor, The Hindustan Times. bharat.bhushan@mailtoday.in

B. R. Patel, Gujarat State Project Officer, UNDP. Mobile 91-98250 95140. Email b.r.patel@undp.org

Usha Rai, Former Deputy Director-Press Institute of India, former Deputy Bureau Chief of The Times of India and former Features Editor, The Hindustan Times. E-mail: usharai1948@rediffmail.com

A.K.Bhattacharya, Group Managing Editor, Business-Standard and former Editor, The Pioneer. Phone: 011- 3720202. Email: akb@business-standard.com

Vinod Kuriyan, Former News Editor, Free Press Journal and Editor, Solitaire Magazine. Phone: 91-9820239573.

Scholarship

Awarded a scholarship in November 2008 by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) for an advanced month long human rights training workshop in Stockholm, Sweden

Appointed India peer reviewer for its flagship world report on the existence and effectiveness of anti-corruption mechanisms that promote public integrity in October 2008 by Global Integrity (www.globalintegrity.org). Global Integrity is an independent, non-profit organization tracking governance and corruption trends around the world

Awarded scholarship in September 2008 by the world investigative reporters’ forum to attend the world conference of investigative reporters in Norway.

Awarded a scholarship in May 2008 by Yale Law College to attend CFP: Technology Policy '08, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Nominated for Excellence in Media Award for Global Health – 2008.

Awarded a scholarship in June 2007 by Panos South Asia for Online Radio Broadcasting Training Workshop at PSA Media Centre Kathmandu, Nepal.

Awarded a scholarship in April 2007 by American Cancer Society and the CDC Foundation for a journalist boot camp on the rising cancer and tobacco burdens.

Awarded Independent Fellowship in December 2003 by Sarai/Centre for Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). Sarai (www.sarai.net) is an interdisciplinary research and practice programme on the city and the media at the center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India. The fellowship report on Internet and Censorship in India-Is it Necessary And Does It Work? can be accessed at http://www.ketan.net/art15.html

Awarded a scholarship by the Israel government in June 2002. The scholarship entailed attending an intensive workshop on media and social change at The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Centre, Haifa, Israel. .

Articles On

Web: http://www.ketan.net/articles_sec.html

Or

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-05,GGLJ:en&q=ketan+tanna

Age

41 years * Date of Birth-3/8/1967