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Smita Prakash
Born (1981-12-02) 2 December 1981 (age 42)
New Delhi, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationEditor-in-chief at Asian News International (ANI)
Years active1989–present[1][2]
SpouseSanjiv Prakash[3]
ChildrenIshaan Prakash[3]
RelativesInna Ramamohan Rao (Father)[4][5]

Smita Prakash is an Indian News Reporter journalist and television personality. She is an Editor-in-chief at Asian News International (ANI),[6][7] [8] a Multimedia News Agency based in India and was the India Correspondent for Channel News Asia, a Singapore based broadcaster. She was a reporter for NPR News America, NHK Japan and other foreign broadcasters on news stories from the field in India. She had covered elections, calamities, political developments, international events or other breaking news stories. She had also anchored Ghoomta Aina on Zee TV and Newsmakers on Doordarshan. Her show “This week in India” was the longest running show on television in South Africa.[9]

Personal life

Smita Prakash is the daughter of Inna Ramamohan Rao, the principal information officer of Government of India and chief editor of ANI.[3][10]She studied advertising and public relations at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.

Career

Smita started her journalism career in 1989. She was anchor of the current affairs show Ghoomta Aaina in 1990.[11]

Interview with Narendra Modi

In January 2019 Smita Prakash interviewed Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.[12][13][14][15][16]

The interview led to a controversy after Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Jan 02 2019, attacked Smita Prakash as a 'pliable' journalist.[8] Smita Prakash responded by saying, “Dear Mr Rahul Gandhi, cheap shot at your press conference to attack me. I was asking questions not answering. You want to attack Mr Modi, go ahead but downright absurd to ridicule me. Not expected of a president of the oldest political party in the country”.[17] A day later Editor Guild of India, sent a notice to the congress president asking for an apology for his comment.[18]

References

  1. ^ "Smita Prakash, Author at SAWM". SAWM. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  2. ^ Dwivedi, Priyank (2019-01-19). "कांग्रेस समर्थक ने कहा पत्रकार स्मिता प्रकाश वाला मोदी का इंटरव्यू फेक था, क्योंकि उनके सामने पानी का ग्लास नहीं दिखा" [Smita Prakash reality check]. Dainik Bhaskar (in Hindi). Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  3. ^ a b c Donthi, Praveen. "How ANI Reports The Government's Version Of Truth". The Caravan. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  4. ^ "Ramamohan Rao: The eternal sunshine in ANI newsroom". www.outlookindia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  5. ^ "Iconic media personality I. Ramamohan Rao cremated in Delhi". DNA India. 2017-05-15. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  6. ^ "Smita Prakash". The Hindu. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  7. ^ डेस्क, मीडिया (2018-03-09). "स्मिता प्रकाश ने बताया कैसी होगी 2020 के बाद की पत्रकारिता" [Smita Prakash told about Journalism after 2020]. Hindi Media (in Hindi). Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  8. ^ a b Desk, Editorial (2019-01-03). "Rahul Gandhi's name calling to ANI Editor Smita Prakash reeks of irony for his 'freedom of press' rhetorics". OpIndia. Retrieved 2019-01-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ Nigam, Ashwani Kumar (2019-01-02). "जानिए प्रधानमंत्री का इंटरव्यू लेकर चर्चा में आने वाली स्मिता प्रकाश कौन हैं ?" [Know who is Smita Prakash, who comes to limelight after interviewed Prime Minister?]. Panchayat Times (in Hindi). Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  10. ^ IANS (2017-05-13). "Rammohan Rao, former principal information officer, dies". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-04-29.
  11. ^ @smitaprakash (2012-12-01). "I used to do a show called Ghoomta Aina in urdu for Zee TV those days,only prvt TV channel then I think" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. ^ "Modi's interview with ANI 101". Qrius. 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  13. ^ panjesuresh (2019-03-14). "What is common to Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Nixon, Putin, Kim, Trump—and the 56 inches of Narendra Modi? The belief that the press is the enemy of the people". IJR. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  14. ^ "PM Modi on surgical strikes, Ram temple, note ban and more: Top quotes - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  15. ^ Express, The South Asian (2019-01-01). "#Modi2019Interview : Key Points". The South Asian Express. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  16. ^ "Meet Members of Indian Institute of Mass Communication's New Executive Council". NewsClick. 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  17. ^ "Smita Prakash slams Rahul Gandhi for his 'pliable journalist' remark". www.newsnation.in. 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  18. ^ "Editors Guild of India issues notice to Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on Editor Smita Prakash". The Editors Guild of India. January 3, 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)



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