Rohit Sardana

Rohit Sardana
Alma mater
[1][2]
Occupation Journalist,editor, news anchor, columnist
Years active 2003–present

Rohit Sardana (Devanagari: रोहित सरदाना) is an Indian journalist, editor, columnist, anchor and media personality and Recipient of Ganesh Vidyarthi Puraskar. He hosted Taal Thok Ke, a debate programme which discusses contemporary social issues in India. The programme is broadcast on Zee News. He currently works for Aaj Tak and hosts the debate show Dangal.[3][4]

Early life and education

Sardana was born in Haryana, India. He did his secondary schooling from Geeta Niketan Avasiya Vidyalaya, Kurukshetra, Haryana.

After undergraduate studies from 1997 to 2000, Sardana attained a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology.

From 2000 to 2002, Sardana completed his academic work to earn a post-graduate degree in mass communication from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology.

Career

From March 2002 to July 2003, Sardana worked as a copy-editor. As a trainee copy editor, Sardana was exposed to the technicalities of anchoring, copy writing, editing, production and post-production work. Along with learning these skills, Sardana studied the functioning of a 24 hour news channel.

Sardana worked as an assistant producer at Sahara Samay from 2003 to 2004.

Since 2004, Sardana established himself at Zee News in the capacity of executive editor, anchor, news presenter and host for the network's Hindi language programmes. He is now a senior anchor at Aaj Tak.[5]

Sardana formerly produced Karmakshetra, among the first Hindi-language news programmes whose primary objective was reporting, for an Indian audience, the state of political accountability in India. The programme question-answer format focuses on Members of Parliament (MP) with Sardana variously challenging and questioning the MP using a detailed report of their work. The final segment of the programme culminates with a detailed "report card" on the work of the Member of Parliament for his or her respective constituency in advance of the 2014 Indian general elections.

Sardana formerly worked with the ETV Network, Akashvani and Sahara Samay.[6]

Awards and recognitions

  • Sansui Best News Program Award
  • Best News Anchor Award from Delhi Education Society
  • Madhav Jyoti Samman for Excellence in Journalism[6]
  • Ganesh Vidyarthi Puraskar

Threats

In November 2017, Sardana got multiple threats from several Islamic organisations against his tweet. Several people from politics, film industry and social media came in his support.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Rohit Sardana education and early life". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  2. ↑ ""Biography of Rohit Sardana"". Zee Media. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rohit Sardana". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "A Former Zee News Producer Reveals Why He Left Over The Network's Coverage Of JNU". Caravan Magazine.
  5. ↑ "Rohit Sardana early life and education". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  6. 1 2 ""Biography of Rohit Sardana"". Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  7. ↑ |url=http:// https://www.thequint.com/news/india/protests-against-rohit-sardana-tweet
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