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Punya Prasun Bajpai

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Occupation
  
Aaj Tak

Role
  
News anchor

Name
  
Punya Bajpai


Notable credit(s)
  
10 तक

Years active
  
1996–present

TV shows
  
Dustak

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Awards
  
Ramnath Goenka Award (2005–2006 & 2007–2008) ENBA Award 2013 IAA Awards 2015

Website
  
prasunbajpai.itzmyblog.com

Nominations
  
ITA Award for Best Anchor - News/Current Affairs show

Similar
  
Sweta Singh, Rahul Kanwal, Ravish Kumar, Madhu Trehan, Ramnath Goenka

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Punya Prasun Bajpai is a news anchor and Executive editor at Aaj Tak and primarily hosts weekday show 10 तक.

Contents

Bajpai is a well known name in the field of electronic media. He has more than 20 years of experience in electronic and print media. Bajpai has also worked with many other reputed media agencies such as Jansatta, Sunday Observer, Sunday Mail, Lokmat, Zee News and NDTV.

Punya prasun bajpai awarded at iaa leadership awards for excellence 2015


Career

Bajpai started his career in electronic media with Aaj Tak in 1996 and worked there till 2003. He then moved to NDTV for a tenure of 14 months. In 2007–2008, he had worked with Sahara Samay as Editor-in-chief. He worked at Zee News for four years as a prime-time anchor and editor before returning to Aaj Tak.

In 2015, Bajpai was one of the ten most active Indian journalists on Twitter.

Publications

He published six books namely राजनीति मेरी जान (Raajneeti Meri Jaan), डिजास्टरः मीडिया एंड पॉलिटिक्स (Disaster: Media and Politics), संसदः लोकतंत्र या नजरों का धोखा (Sansad: Loktantra ya nazron ka dhokha), आदिवासियों पर टाडा (Aadivasiyon par TADA) and others. He also writes articles for a number of daily and weekly news and literary publications in Hindi, several of which are also published on his blog.

Awards

  • He received appreciation for his work during 2001 Indian Parliament attack where he anchored live for 5 consecutive hours.
  • He won the Ramnath Goenka award for Hindi print and electronic media in 2005-06 and 2007–08. He is the only journalist who received this award twice.
  • References

    Punya Prasun Bajpai Wikipedia