Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 18, 1971 |
| Nationality | Indian  |
| Education | Modern School, New Delhi, St. Stephen's College, Jamia Milia Islamia, Graduate School of Journalism |
| Alma mater | Graduate School of Journalism |
| Employer | New Delhi Television |
Barkha Dutt (born December 18, 1971) is a reputed senior TV journalist with New Delhi Television (NDTV).
Early life
Barkha Dutt was born to S.P. Dutt (called "Speedy" because of his initials) and Mrs Prabha Dutt (nee Behl).[1] Dutt was an official in Air-India and Prabha was Chief of Bureau of the Hindustan Times for some time. Her childhood days were spent shuttling between New Delhi and New York.[2]
Barkha credits her journalism skills to her mother, Prabha, a pioneer among women journalists in India. Prabha Dutt graduated from the Chandigarh School of Journalism with honours and did her inhouse training with the Hindustan Times, Delhi in 1964. Prabha Dutt died in 1984, when she was in her prime, due to a brain haemorrhage. At that time Barkha was just thirteen.[1]
Education
Dutt was educated at the Modern School, New Delhi. She then did her Bachelor's degree in English literature from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi. After this, she did her Master's degree in Mass Communication from Jamia Milia Islamia's Mass Communication Research Center New Delhi.
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.
Career
Barkha Dutt's frontline reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999 rose her to prominence in India. She had interviewed Capt. Vikram Batra during the Kargil conflict. Since then, Dutt has reported on a large number of conflicts, covering areas ranging from Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Currently, she is the Managing Editor of NDTV 24x7, India's premiere satellite television network, and the host of We the People, a discussion show covering current events. As the Managing editor of the Channel she was partly responsible for the chaotic scenes outside residence of Arushi Talwar, a murdered teenager. In covering that incident, TV crew, including NDTV whose Managing Editor is Barkha Dutt, were severely criticized for poor editorial standards. Evening during her reporting in Mumbai attack, her continuous effort to sensationalize every bit of news has angered the views which are heavily expressed by in the blogs.
Her reporting style has been ridiculed as the worst of its kind and consequently, Ms Dutt has been nominated the worst Senior Journalist. In shoving microphones on the faces of ordinary people, and seeking tears -- either hers or that of the victim, she has been nominated for Razzies of Indian journalism.
Ms Dutt also has a penchant to dissolve complex issues into 10 second soundbytes -- reducing the serious to absurd. Her rebuttal of these criticisms drew satire for being an insult to the intelligence of viewers.[3]
She also writes a weekly column for The Hindustan Times and Khaleej Times.
Criticisms
Lately, during November 2008 Mumbai attacks, she has been accused of being insensitive to the victim's families[4]. Navy chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta held NDTV coverage responsible for the death of three soldiers during the Kargil conflict. [5][6]
Barkha responded to all the criticism on the NDTV website [7]
Awards
Her work has won her over twenty international and national awards including the Padma Shri Award (Journalism), 2008.
References
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