Mr. Amitabh Ranjan
MA ,UGC NET
BASIC INFORMATION:
| Name: AMITABH RANJAN |
| Gender : Male |
| Department : Communicative English And Media Studies |
Educational qualification:
- Masters in Economics (First Class) from Patna University
- PG Diploma in Journalism (First Class) Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi
- UGC-NET qualified in Economics
Professional qualification:
- 21 years in print journalism with newspapers like The Tribune (Chandigarh); The Indian Express (Chandigarh & Delhi); The Statesman (Delhi); Hindustan Times (Chandigarh & Delhi); and Today (The India Today Group, Delhi). The last position held was of Senior Editor, The Indian Express (Delhi)
- Over two years with MSL, a PR firm, as Bihar Media Adviser for their account, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the largest philanthropic organisation in the world
- Media consultant with Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Patna, for their two mega events – the Global Seminar marking 25 years of the Institute and the Global Seminar on Karl Marx
- Helped develop and arrange content for the Bihar government’s projects like district gazetteers, an encyclopaedia of state’s flora, text panels for Patna and Bihar museums, etc.
Present engagement:
- Guest Faculty with Patna Women’s College, Patna: Engage Honours classes in the Departments of Communicative English and Media Studies (CEMS) and Bachelor in Mass Communication (BMC). Also engage classes of add-on courses for Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Public Relations in the Department of Economics
- Work as Chief Operating Officer of Extra-C, a registered NGO working in the field of promoting learning-based co-curricular activities across the country
- Senior Adviser with Etchers Pvt Ltd, a public affairs and communication consultancy firm
- Visiting faculty for Corporate Image Building and Crisis Management at the Indian Institute of Coal Management (IICM), Ranchi
- Write for the Book Review page of the Sunday edition of The Financial Express (FE Sunday)
Core strengths:
- Media insight, a relic of looking after daily editions of newspapers and meeting deadlines
- Editing (News, features, book drafts, etc.)
- Page layout
- Written communication (English)
