Aveek Sarkar (
Bengali
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: অভীক সরকার; born 9 June 1945) is an Indian newspaper promoter and proprietor. He is the present Chairman of Press Trust of India and Vice Chairman and Editor Emeritus of
ABP Group. Previously he was editor-in-chief of ''
Anandabazar Patrika
''Anandabazar Patrika'' (Bengali: আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা, ) is an Indian Bengali-language daily newspaper owned by the ABP Group. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1 million cop ...
'' and
''The Telegraph''. He was also the Chief Editor of ABP Group of publications.
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ABP Corporate Website
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Information Science and Technology
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Science and Technology
* Graduate School / Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan
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He was ranked as one of the most powerful Indians in 2009 by ''
The Indian Express
''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ...
''. He played vital roles during the formation of Penguin India, the Indian counterpart of
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.[STAR News
ABP News is an Indian Hindi-language free-to-air television news channel owned by ABP Group. The news channel was launched in 1998 originally as STAR News before being acquired by ABP Group. It won the Best Hindi News Channel award in the 21st ...]
in 2003.
Sarkar spent a year as an understudy to Sir
Harold Evans in Britain, taking time to understand what went on at the previous two papers at which Evans had worked - ''
The Northern Echo'' and the ''
Manchester Evening News
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'' - before joining him at ''
The Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...
''.
Personal life
Sarkar is known to having strong opinions about most issues. He refrains from bringing most of these stances to his business and editorial meetings, according to a profile by
Nicholas Coleridge in ''Paper Tigers''.
References
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Living people
Journalists from West Bengal
University of Calcutta alumni
Indian mass media owners
ABP Group
Indian newspaper editors
Aveek
Businesspeople from Kolkata
Indian male journalists
1945 births