Ajit Anjum is an Indian journalist. He has worked as

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at News 24 and

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news channels. He was awarded the

Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) are one of the awards in India in the field of journalism. Named after Ramnath Goenka, the awards have been held annually since 2006, with the 12th edition being held in 2017. The awa ...

in 2010.

Early life

Anjum, named Ajit Kumar at birth, was born in the

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district of

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. His father, Ramsagar Prasad Singh, was in the Bihar Judicial Services as a judge at

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. Anjum had his early education at

and

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. He obtained his bachelor's degree from

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, affiliated to

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. Anjum started his career as a journalist while pursuing his studies at Muzaffarpur. He changed his last name from Kumar to Anjum while working as a local reporter at the ''Patliputra Times.'' Working as freelance journalist in Patna, he wrote for ''

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'', ''Saptahik Hindustaan'', ''Dinmaan'' and ''

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''. He went to Delhi in 1989 and started working at ''

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''.

Career

In 1994, Anjum began his career in journalism by joining BAG Films as director of the talk show ''Rubaru'' hosted by the Congress leader

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. He worked for fifteen years with BAG Films and produced many shows in that period. He then moved to

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as a senior producer but did not stay there very long. He rejoined BAG Films and, as an employee of BAF, he spearheaded the launch of News 24 in 2007. While with News 24, he was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for his reporting of the flood in Bihar in 2010. Anjum managed a campaign on News 24 that resulted in truckloads of relief materials reaching the victims. As a result, ''Fem'' magazine mentioned him in its list of 50 most powerful people of Bihar in its survey conducted in 2016. He left News 24 in 2014 and joined

as its managing editor, working under editor-in-chief

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. While Anjum was working at India TV, a senior correspondent of the same TV news channel, Imran Shaikh, accused Anjum of pressurising him to tweak news in favour of a political party. Anjum denied the charge through a Facebook post. While working with

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, he conceptualized shows like ''Red Alert,'' ''Sansani'' and ''Pol Khol.''

Awards

, 2010.
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References

External links

Ajit Anjum
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