Rahul Roushan

Rahul Roushan
Born (1980-01-29) 29 January 1980
Patna, Bihar, India
Pen name Pagal Patrakaar[1]
Occupation Strategist, journalist, entrepreneur
Language Hindi, English
Nationality India
Alma mater IIM Ahmedabad
Genre Current affairs, Satire
Website
rahulroushan.com

Rahul Roushan (born 29 January 1980) is a former journalist, entrepreneur and consultant who currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of Swarajya magazine[2] and runs the news and opinion website OpIndia.com.[3] He is the founder of the current affairs satire portal Faking News, and served as its editor from 2008 to 2016.[4] Originally from Patna, Roushan is now based in Mumbai.[5] He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication and IIM Ahmedabad.[2][6][7]

Life

Roushan comes from the city of Patna in Bihar.[5] He graduated in Mathematics from Patna University in year 2001, and then received a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in New Delhi in 2002.[2] Rahul is also an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management granted in 2007.[2][6] Roushan is settled in Mumbai, where he lives with his wife.[5]

Work

After graduating from IIMC, Roushan worked as a copy editor, bulletin producer, and news anchor with the Hindi news channel Sahara Samay for two and a half years.[2][1] He left journalism to pursue higher studies at IIM Ahmedabad. He turned an entrepreneur while still being a student at IIM Ahmedabad, when he launched crickstock.com, a virtual gaming website based on cricket, ahead of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.[2][6]

Crickstock.com was sold off to a US based online gaming company subsequently while Roushan worked as an independent management consultant on other projects.[8] One such project was helping the Bihar government in setting up a management institute in Patna in the year 2008.[9]

Inspired by the American news satire website The Onion, Roushan started Faking News in 2008, when he was working as an independent consultant in New Delhi.[7][5] Roushan wrote under the pseudonym Pagal Patrakaar (Hindi for crazy journalist).[1] In 2009, the blog was turned into a full-fledged website.[7] In 2013, Faking News was acquired by Firstpost, a news portal of the Network 18 group, for an undisclosed amount.[4] Roushan served as its editor till September 2016, when he joined Swarajya magazine as Chief Strategy Officer.[2]

In addition, Roushan has also served as the head of content services for Singapore-based Affle Pte Ltd, and has been a consultant with Pi Communications and RedCube Consulting Group.[6]

Influence

Priyanka Sharma wrote in the Business Standard that several authors followed Roushan's lead to start similar ventures as Faking News, including the founders of www.newsthatmattersnot.com and The UnReal Times.[1] Sonali Acharjee wrote that Roushan is popular on Twitter and that his followers always expect him to post something witty or clever.[10] His humorous tweets are often cited by Indian news websites.[11][12][13][14][15][16]

Recognition and awards

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sharma, Priyanka (4 February 2012). "A spoof story". Business Standard. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Swarajya Staff (18 September 2016). "Rahul Roushan Joining Swarajya As Chief Strategy Officer". Swarajya. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  3. ↑ BBC Trending (17 December 2016). "False rumours and fake news cloud India's currency plan". BBC. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  4. 1 2 HT Correspondent (31 May 2013). "Firstpost buys current affairs satire portal FakingNews.com". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Borgohain, Ananya (6 July 2014). "Making Faking News". The Pioneer. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Rahul Roushan: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 Bhandaram, Vishnupriya (25 March 2013). "What a fake!". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "Swarajya Conversations: Join Us For An Hour-Long Chat With Raghav Bahl In Delhi". 15 December 2016.
  9. ↑ "CIMP gears up to start classes from July". 8 April 2008.
  10. ↑ Acharjee, Sonali (2016). Look Up: Social Media and the Addiction No One Is Talking About. Hay House. ISBN 9789385827075. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  11. ↑ Kumar, Rajeev (11 October 2016). "Ravana gets a hilarious burning on Twitter". Financial Express. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  12. ↑ Express Web Desk (21 October 2016). "Pan Bahar ad: Pierce Brosnan said he didn't know what he was selling and Twitterati can't believe him". Indian Express. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  13. ↑ "Twitter in splits after reports of Arnab Goswami quitting TimesNow". Tribune India. 1 November 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  14. ↑ Express Web Desk (11 November 2016). "Rahul Gandhi at ATM: Twitter confused if people still chose selfie with Rs 2,000 note". Indian Express. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  15. ↑ DNA Web Team (24 November 2016). "Manomhan finally spoke under Modi Govt, yeh hai acche din: Twitter reacts to ex-PM's speech". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  16. ↑ "Why Twitter is going bananas over Arnab Goswami's 'Republic'". dailyo.in. 16 December 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  17. ↑ "IIMC Alumni Meet 2015 Felicitates Campus Entrepreneurs". NDTV. 22 February 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  18. ↑ "TEDxPilani - Rahul Roushan - 3/13/10".
  19. ↑ "TEDxManipal".
  20. ↑ "Faking news: Rahul Roushan at TEDxIIMRanchi".
  21. ↑ "From faking news to making news".
  22. ↑ "TEDx XLRI, 12th Feb 2017, LH23".
  23. ↑ "TEDx 2018 - Rahul Roushan | BITSHerald - 2/18/18". 2018-02-18.
  24. ↑ "Sevanti Ninan and Faking News founder speak on Day Two of Article 19".
  25. ↑ "Horizons 2015 starts off at IIM-K".
  26. ↑ "IIM-Udaipur organizes LeapDay LitFest 2015 on 28th Feb".
  27. ↑ "Festival to bring film and literature together".
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