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'''Barkha Dutt''' (born on December 18, 1971) is a [[India]]n TV journalist and columnist. She is currently Group Editor, English News at [[New Delhi Television]]<ref name="dutt2008on">{{cite news
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Barkha Dutt
File:Barkhadutt.jpg
Born (1971-12-18) 18 December 1971 (age 52)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
EducationSt. Stephen's College, Delhi
Jamia Millia Islamia
Columbia University
OccupationJournalist
Notable creditWe the People
The Buck Stops Here
TitleGroup Editor-English News NDTV
Websitehttp://www.barkhadutt.tv/

Barkha Dutt (born on December 18, 1971) is a corrupted Indian TV journalist and columnist. She is currently Group Editor, English News at New Delhi Television[1].

Dutt gained prominence for her reportage of the Kargil War. She has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. She writes a popular column for The Hindustan Times, called "Third Eye."However, she has also come in for criticism that her reporting is sensationalist and melodramatic.

Personal life

Barkha Dutt was born in New Delhi to her father, S.P.Dutt, an official in Air India and her mother, Prabha Dutt who was a well-known journalist with the Hindustan Times. Barkha credits her journalism skills to her mother, Prabha, a pioneer among women journalists in India and to all the pioneering women journalists of her mother's generation. Prabha Dutt died in 1984, when she was in her prime, due to a brain haemorrhage. At that time Barkha was just thirteen.[citation needed] Barkha's younger sister Bahar Dutt is also a T.V. journalist working for CNN IBN

Career

Barkha studied at Modern School, New Delhi, graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in English literature. She received a Master's in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia IslamiaMass Communication Research Center, New Delhi. That was the time NDTV was just about starting and Barkha took up a job with the channel when it was a TV production house creating news programmes and providing content to Star TV. Later, NDTV created its own independent news and content channels, and Barkha Dutt rose to be its Managing Editor for English News. She was a 1997 winner of the Inlaks Scholarship, which sends six Indians abroad annually for graduate work. Barkha took two years off from work and got a master's in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism,New York.She was one of the winners of the prestigious Inlaks Scholarship, which sends 6 Indians overseas to study every year.

Dutt's reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999, including an interview with Captain Vikram Batra, brought her to prominence in India. She has since covered conflicts in Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. She won a Padma Shri for her coverage of the 2004 Tsunami [2] and Commonwealth Broadcasters Award for Journalist of the Year. Her Sunday talk show has won the most awards for any show across television channels, winning the Indian Television Academy award for Best Talk Show five years in a row.[3] In 2008, Dutt received the Indian News Broadcasting Award for the Most Intelligent News Show Host.[4] She has been awarded the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award twice by the World Economic Forum (2001, 2008)[5]. She has also received Society's Young Achievers Award. [6] She is a nominated member of India's National Integration Council[7]. She was also Asia Society Fellow in 2006 and serves on the International Advisory Council of the Asia Society.[8] In an SMS survey of the readers of the Hindi daily Hindustan, Dutt won the second place in the "Media Leaders" category.[citation needed]

Criticism

Dutt's reporting of the Kargil conflict was criticized by The Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta who insinuated that she may have compromised the security of the troops by giving away troop locations.[9] Dutt denied these charges, claiming that former Army chief Gen VP Malik's book had indicated otherwise. General Malik had been Chief of Army Staff during the Kargil conflict.[10]

Barkha Dutt has been accused by Newswatch,a website critical of media for substituting reporting with theatrics and reducing complex issues to sound bytes[11]. Barkha Dutt responded to the criticisms of her sounding shrill on Television by saying the medium lent itself to such shrillness[12]. Amita Malik criticized Barkha Dutt for intruding into the first private moments of long separated civilians with a long list of trite questions[13]. She responded by saying she did not believe in keeping emotion out of reporting[14].

Ms Dutt, according to many publications, was the journalist who came in for the most criticism for sensationalist coverage, after the Mumbaiaryan Attacks[11][15][16]. Vanity Fair Magazine carried a report stating Barkha Dutt's broadcast were used by terrorist handlers in Pakistan to relay orders back to those in Mumbai,[17]

Sevanti Ninan, a media critic, accused Barkha Dutt,of being representative of the popular malaise afflicting the news media.[18].

Dutt along with NDTV were also criticized By many Indian Bloggers for censoring their right to Freedom of speech[19][20] when they issued a legal notice for defamation to a blogger, Chyetanya Kunte, who in his post named Shoddy Journalism, had come down heavily on Barkha Dutt for "breaking every rule of ethical journalism in reporting the Mumbai mayhem(2008 Mumbai attacks)."He had also accused Dutt of "giving away locations in her broadcasts, thus causing Indian casualties" during the Kargil war.The serving of the legal notice forced Kunte to tender an `unconditional apology' and remove his post. In response to severe criticism she has received, Dutt in a interview said "One thing I have learnt in my journalistic life is that to be disliked is the flip side of being liked. I respect criticism but then...I have been congratulated by people like N.R. Narayana Murthy, Shashi Tharoor and Salman Rushdie, among many others, for my and my channel’s reporting ."[21] NR Narayana Murthy was an independent director of NDTV at the time he aired his view on Ms Dutt.[22]

Umair Ahmed Muhajir criticized Barkha Dutt for her reactions on the issue of Naxal Violence in Dantewada for not being factually correct and for reducing a complex issue into a simplistic debate about a single essay written by Arundathi Roy.[23] Barkha Dutt regularly defends criticisms against her or against the media by citing two contradictory criticisms from different people to justify status-quo.[24]

References

  1. ^ Dutt, Barkha (2008-12-04). "On the record: Mumbai and media coverage". NDTV. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  2. ^ "Rajdeep Sardesai, Vinod Dua and Barkha Dutt Conferred Padma Shri". {{cite news}}: Text "um/news/rngf/awards/index_05.html" ignored (help)
  3. ^ http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k7/july/july252.php
  4. ^ http://www.india-server.com/news/barkha-dutt-gets-most-intelligent-news-3183.html
  5. ^ http://www.televisionpoint.com/lounge/lounge.php?id=1176444877
  6. ^ http://www.dpshyderabad.com/YOUNG%20INDIA_%20A%20force%20to%20reckon%20with.htm
  7. ^ http://mha.nic.in/pdfs/NIC-MemberLst.pdf
  8. ^ http://www.csmworld.org/public/asia21.htm
  9. ^ http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/03/stories/2008120360861300.htm
  10. ^ http://ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20080075194
  11. ^ a b http://www.newswatch.in/research/2727
  12. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040711/spectrum/main1.htm
  13. ^ http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050416/saturday/sight.htm
  14. ^ https://twitter.com/BDUTT/status/7660502020
  15. ^ "India's media blasted for sensational Mumbai coverage". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  16. ^ "India's press rebuked for Mumbai terror stories". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-02-02.
  17. ^ http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/11/taj-hotel-siege-200911?currentPage=6
  18. ^ http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/10/11/stories/2009101150140300.htm
  19. ^ http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/feb/030209-blogs-ndtv-barkha-dutt-bangalore-special.htm
  20. ^ http://www.punemirror.in/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=25&contentid=200901312009013104285348453c037de&sectxslt=
  21. ^ http://www.livemint.com/2008/12/04003721/Targeting-media-is-not-just-un.html
  22. ^ http://www.ndtv.com/investors/narayanmurthy.htm
  23. ^ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265019
  24. ^ http://twitter.com/BDUTT

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