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Srivats Uniyal

Srivats Uniyal

Journalist
Noida

Summary

Experience: 23 years

Presenting a prioritized overview of the day's news and pictures for the readers is what I am best at.

News management, team management, editing and rewriting is what I am good at.

Knowing and understanding the nuances of the language is a strong suit, cultivated by way of reading the Dictionary like a book, and always consulting it. The inspiration for having a command over the language is the famous quote - It's the word that rules the world.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Associate Editor (News)

Business Standard
05.2018 - 11.2023
  • Anchoring afternoon news meeting to prioritise stories for different sections of the newspaper, including economy, companies, stock markets and international. The meeting is a discussion with reporters, vertical heads, news desk team members and of course the Editor, where a shortlist is decided upon from the several reporter and newswire stories.
  • Monitoring breaking news throughout the day for incidents, events, and topics of interest to quickly assign coverage to reporters.
  • Working with graphic artists, ad division team members and other specialists to bring out an edition living up to the standards of the esteemed journalists - Mr Nainan and Mr A K Bhattacharya.
  • Selecting photos from various agencies, including Reuters and Press Trust of India, to be used for print.
  • Devising attention-grabbing, yet accurate and not over-speaking headlines for reader engagement.

News Editor

Times Of India
09.2015 - 04.2018
  • Accountable for all news content that went to print.
  • Reported to the Editor about news articles, picture selection, delegation of stories to reporters.
  • Conceptualised, pitched, assigned and monitored stories from new agencies. The one particular story I would bring to notice was an allegation of rape by a girl student against an auto rickshaw driver. In this case, the police was adamant that nothing had happened and that the girl was cooking up the story. The reporter had requested to not play up the story, but I spoke to the Editor and the reporter in question on the phone (it was a late-night incident and deadline was nearing). After much deliberation, we took the story as lead on Page 1. My contention was that the benefit of the doubt should be given the girl student. Now, to be fair to the police we carried a huge inset box highlighting their side of the story. The next day it was a huge news in all local channels and newspapers of Rajasthan. At the end, it came to light that the girl had indeed cooked up the story. Our reporter thanked me as the policemen literally thanked him for equally highlighting their side of the story, something which other media houses did not do.
  • Planned for coverage of large events by assigning reporters and photographers, of course in consultation with the Editor.

Markets Editor

Times Internet Ltd
08.2013 - 08.2015
  • Responsible for all stories related to the stock market. Getting the web landing page ready for 9:15 am opening of the market, and then furiously updating events, stock movements till the close of the market, that is 3:30 pm (provisional). After the closing, the job was to assign stories for the day ahead and analysis stories of the day's events.
  • Reviewed articles for grammar, spelling, punctuation, syntax, accuracy, and quality.
  • Determined readiness of written pieces, made changes, and approved final versions for going live on the website.
  • Prepared, rewrote, and edited pieces to improve readability and impact.
  • Wrote analysis pieces and point-wise stories on the news of the day.

Senior Assistant Editor

NDTV
02.2013 - 07.2013
  • Selected news items for the business section of the web edition from news wires and in-house reporters.
  • Prioritised news stories on the landing page of the business section.
  • Wrote stories, from spots to analysis.
  • Reported to the Business Editor of NDTV Profit.

Senior Assistant Editor

Financial Express
10.2010 - 07.2012
  • Job largely involved making pages - companies, economy, stock market, international, and special pages. This included editing stories from the bureau, laying out the page design, selecting suitable pictures from agencies and in-house photographers, basically an end-to-end job on the page.

Assistant Editor

Financial Chronicle
10.2009 - 09.2010
  • Making pages, editing/rewriting stories and prioritising stories in consultation with News Editor for all news/special sections.
  • Wrote quick edits for the Edit page.
  • Worked with design team, illustrators to make the page more reader-friendly.
  • Reported to News Editor.

Producer

INX News
04.2008 - 06.2009
  • Cleared reporter stories to go live on the news channel.
  • Editing, rewriting and making the stories crisp for TV channel viewers was the core job.
  • Coordinated with producers and on-air anchors on content, news ideas.
  • Coordinated with copy editors for updated news ticker feed.

Assistant Editor

Indo-Asian News Service (IANS)
05.2007 - 05.2008
  • Responsible for two magazines - Pravasi Bhartiya and Africa Quarterly.
  • Job involved heavy rewriting of approx 10,000-word stories each assigned by the Editor for the magazine.
  • Coordinated with the design team for pictures, layouts, cover and back page of the magazine.

Chief Copy Editor

Times Of India
04.2000 - 04.2007
  • Making pages, editing stories as per the directions from News Editor.
  • Reviewed and edited content for correct grammar and style.
  • Played key role in the launch of Speednews (the parallel youth edition of Times of India). Selected stories for the opening page and also decided on the content for inside pages.
  • Launched the web edition of Economic Times with the push of the right hand forefinger. It was a proud moment for the launch team.
  • Wrote corporate news stories for the web edition, from press conferences and talking to people.

Reporter

Profiler
10.1999 - 03.2000
  • Wrote stories for beats ranging from the police, to the administration, companies.
  • Did interviews of politicians, top policemen, top administration officials and celebrities.
  • Profiler was the first English tabloid of Noida, brought out once a week, and based on the concept of neighbourhood magazines.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Deshbandhu College
New Delhi
04.1995 - 04.1998

Mount Carmel School
New Delhi
04.1994 - 04.1995

St Thomas' College
Dehradun

Skills

News selection, editing, rewriting, managing a team

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Timeline

Associate Editor (News)

Business Standard
05.2018 - 11.2023

News Editor

Times Of India
09.2015 - 04.2018

Markets Editor

Times Internet Ltd
08.2013 - 08.2015

Senior Assistant Editor

NDTV
02.2013 - 07.2013

Senior Assistant Editor

Financial Express
10.2010 - 07.2012

Assistant Editor

Financial Chronicle
10.2009 - 09.2010

Producer

INX News
04.2008 - 06.2009

Assistant Editor

Indo-Asian News Service (IANS)
05.2007 - 05.2008

Chief Copy Editor

Times Of India
04.2000 - 04.2007

Reporter

Profiler
10.1999 - 03.2000

Bachelor of Arts - English Literature

Deshbandhu College
04.1995 - 04.1998

Mount Carmel School
04.1994 - 04.1995

St Thomas' College

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