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- Vartika Nanda's expert domain is journalism - its practice, teaching and training. Nanda has held various journalistic assignments in Zee News, Star News, NDTV, Lok Sabha TV and worked with Sahara India Media as its programming head. She sneaked into print journalism while her engagement as a Joint Editor of a magazine, Sablog. As regular columnisnt she contributed for over two years to The Pioneer till 2007 and she continues contributing columns to three leading national dailies. Nanda has also taught TV journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communications as Associate Professor for three years. Presently she is the permanent member of the teaching faculty in the Departmant of Journalism in Lady Shri Ram College of Delhi University in India. On training front, She has held media training of stingers and budding journalists in TV news medium in Delhi and also held a number of workshops in Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Ranchi, Nainital and Patna. Her training workshops on anchoring and reporting as well as consultancy to students for their entrance tests to premier media teaching institutes like IIMC, JAMIA, ASJ etc are increasingly becoming popular. Nanda is the recipient of the Bharatendu Harishchandra Award for the year 2005. Bharatendu Harishchandra Awards are given by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting since 1983 to promote original writings in Hindi on journalism and mass communications. Nanda has been given the award for her book, Television aur Apraadh Patrkarita. ” In 2007, she received the Sudha Patrakarita Samman for outstanding writing on media issues. Vartika Nanda also has contributed to the book, “Making News” edited by Uday Sahay. The book published by Oxford University Press contains a series of articles on the state of media in India and the various genres of journalism. Nanda’s article in the book is titled as, “Television Crime Reporting in India. ” Nanda had her initial education in Punjab. In her school days she authored a compilation of poems titled, Madhur Dastak(1989). She won many laurels at the school and college level. Notable among them being First Prize in Story Competition conducted by Dainik Tribune and Himachal Pradesh Government and also a Special Prize in Story Competition held by Language Department, Punjab in 1991-92. From there on she worked for DD Jalandhar for some time, where she was the youngest anchor, before joining Zee TV. Nanda worked with Zee for one and an half year and then joined an organization that later become the leading news channel in the country - NDTV. She worked with NDTV for 8 years and before she quit, she was the Chief of Crime Bureau. She had become a house hold name and was commonly known as Prannoy Roy’s crime reporter. After this she taught at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication for three years - as Associate Professor, Television Journalism. In 2004, she organized a Specialized Media Course for Civil Service Officers' at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy, Mussoorie. The academy trains Civil Servants. She also organized a Media Training Workshop for Coast Guard Officers' at IIMC, New Delhi. The same year, she conducted a specialized course on Handling Media in Crisis for Senior Railway Officers' at IIMC, Dhenkanal, Orissa. In 2006, she joined the world’s first television channel to be run by the Parliament of a country, Lok Sabha TV as the Executive Producer. She played an instrumental role in setting up and running the channel. She,in addition to her responsibilities as an Executive Producer, used to anchor one of the most popular programmes of Lok Sabha TV, “Sansad Se Sadak Tak”, however it was critised many times. In March 2008, she joined Sahara India Media as Programming Head. The network offers five regional 24x7 news channels catering to millions and millions of Hindi speaking viewers in the states of U.P. /Uttarakhand, M.P. /Chattisgarh, Bihar/Jharkhand, Delhi/NCR and Mumbai. Additionally the network also offers 'Samay', a 24-hr national news channel broadcast in over 66 countries. Vartika Nanda will be heading the programming of all these channels. Nanda travelled to Germany in 2007 as a delegate of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (India). The objective was to promote Indo-German Strategic Partnership and Media Education. She was also part of the Young Leaders Forum (India) to explore possibilities of strategic partnership between EU-India and visited Brussels (Belgium) in 2008 as a part of this program. She also holds a certificate in Change Management conducted by the Commonwealth Broadcast Association in 2008. She has co-authored a book with Uday Sahay titled Media aur Jansamvad published by Samayik Prakashan in 2009. This is her third book.
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