Nationality Indian Name Santosh Bhartiya Religion Hindu | Notable credit(s) Chauthi Duniya Years active 1970 – present Role Journalist | |
Occupation Editor-in-chief of Chauthi Duniya Books Patrakarita : Naye Daur, Naye Pratiman, Dalit And Minority Empowerment | ||
hasee ka baadshah kader khan hai santosh bhartiya
Santosh Bhartiya (born 26-03-1950) is a journalist credited for revolutionizing the nature and approach of present-day television scenario in India, especially election coverage, by making it people-centric from leader and political party-centric.
Contents
- hasee ka baadshah kader khan hai santosh bhartiya
- Ek mulakat Ep 244 Santosh Bhartiya Editor in Chief Chauthi Duniya New Delhi
- Career
- Political career
- Social movement activity
- References
Ek mulakat | Ep - 244 | Santosh Bhartiya, Editor-in-Chief, Chauthi Duniya, New Delhi
Career
Santosh Bhartiya started his journalistic career as Special Correspondent in Hindi weekly RAVIVAR, a prestigious and popular publication of Anand Bazar Patrika. Santosh Bhartiya did the first ever interview of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi and wrote about the Phoolan and Vikram Mallah. After that he joined The Telegraph, an esteemed English daily of the same group. Santosh Bhartiya became one of the first TV journalists of India when he joined Doordarshan for the first news and current affairs program, News Line. he became Chief Editor of Chauthi Duniya, the first Sunday newspaper in the history of Hindi journalism, which not only set a milestone in Indian journalism but was also considered as a trendsetter in the field of Hindi Journalism. He also became the member of Press Council of India. Bhartiya started a news agency HEADLINE WORLD. This news agency had the membership of all the non-metro newspapers of India. He also worked as Consulting Editor of H.I.F.E, the news and feature agency, which represents about 3000 newspapers of the country. It was his idea of directly involving the voter and common people, which he implemented during the assembly election of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Delhi and Chhattisgarh in the year 2003. This pioneer endeavor of Bhartiya compelled all the other TV channels to follow suit during the Lok Sabha Election of 2004.
Political career
Bhartiya was elected to the 9th Lok Sabha of Indian Parliament in 1989 from the Farrukhabad Constituency of Uttar Pradesh and became the Member of Parliament. His sojourn with politics was for a short span of time and he again returned to his old calling journalism.
Social movement activity
Bhartiya accompanied renowned social activists Anna Hazare and General VK Singh on Jantantra Yatra across the country. He traveled 28,000 km, addressing 2.50 crore (25 million) people through 750 public meetings. He played a crucial role in taking this social movement forward and making it a success.