Karma Paljor
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Karma Paljor | |
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| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Bangalore University, Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and news anchor |
| Years active | 2001-present |
Karma Paljor is an award-winning Indian journalist and television news anchor. His career as a media professional began in 2001 and is presently associated with the news channel CNN-News18.[1][2] He has received several awards for his role as a reporter and for his coverage of natural disasters since then.
Karma is a storyteller who is passionate about broadcast journalism. He also being a keen aviation watcher, loves flying his model aircraft when not reporting about the troubles in the skies. He also loves to teach. He spends a week every year teaching public speaking and digital storytelling to children at Padma Odzer Choeling School in Sikkim. It is a school that caters to children from very poor families,many of them orphaned or abandoned at birth.[3]
Early life and education
After attending school in Tashi Namgyal Academy, at his birthplace Sikkim,India, Karma Paljor headed for graduation from Bangalore University and then post-graduation diploma from Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai.
Career
Karma started his career with The Times of India in Mumbai and moved to CNBC TV18 in 2001. Apart from covering national and political stories for the channel, Paljor also anchored the breakfast show on CNBC TV18.[4] He won the Chevening Scholarship for Broadcast journalism in 2004. He joined CNN-IBN in 2005 as a founding employee and has hosted every possible show on the channel. He specializes in covering aviation and natural disaster. He has planned and executed several award-winning programs like Budget Yatra[5][6][7][8][9], Axe the Tax, and Reporters Project. He also heads the special features team. ' He has done some investigative pieces like the 30-minute Who killed the Maharaja and the Fear in the Sky series about how aviation infrastructure was not keeping pace with the growing aviation sector in India. This series resulted in an uproar in the Parliament, with several MP's filling questions on safety.
He is of the sixth class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship[10] and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.[11]
Awards and honors
Karma was awarded the reporter of the year in 2010 by Indian Television at the News Television Awards.[12] In 2011, he won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award[13] for excellence in Journalism in the category for Business and Economic Journalism.[14][15][16] His teams coverage of the 2013 North India floods in Uttrakhand, and won the award for the Best National News Coverage in English at the Exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards (ENBA) in 2013[17]. In 2014, Karma won the ENBA Award in the Best Spot News Reporting (English) category for his coverage of Cyclone Phailin[18], which won him the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for on-the-spot reporting in 2014.
References
- ^ http://www.news18.com/byline/karma-paljor.html
- ^ http://www.in.com/karma-paljor/profile-1914005.html
- ^ http://www.anantaaspencentre.in/profiles_of_KBF_6.aspx
- ^ http://www.news18.com/byline/karma-paljor.html
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-AsYsK_6gQ
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4rziUwni4
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSLoYC_j_ss
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFVaNXgfb5I
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0dyLVlojU
- ^ http://www.anantaaspencentre.in/profiles_of_KBF_6.aspx
- ^ http://agln.aspeninstitute.org/profile/3979
- ^ "NT Awards honours TV news industry". Indian Television. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2014/09/cnn-ibn-wins-5-awards-at-ramnath-goenka-excellence-in-journalism-awards
- ^ http://www.network18online.com/Awards2.html
- ^ "IBN wins five Ramnath Goenka Awards". News 18. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Ramnath Goenka Awards: The Storytellers". Indian Express. 14 September 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ http://wsds.teriin.org/2015/pdf/speaker/karma.pdf
- ^ http://www.exchange4media.com/tv/this-award-highlights-how-business-genre-is-becoming-the-mainstreamsanjay-pugalia_58964.html
Sources
- "Karma Paljor: Exclusive News Stories by Karma Paljor on Current Affairs, Events at IBNLive". IBN Live. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
External links
- Karma Paljor on X