Description
Deepak Kumar Content writer
DOB: 30/04/1992
WORK EXPERIENCE
Reporter, Financial Express, Indian Express Grp, Mumbai, May 2017-April 2018
Covering the auto sector for the print edition from Mumbai.
Duties included writing:
o Breaking news stories
o Trend-based story based on qualitative and quantitative research
o Data stories after analysing pools of raw data
o Interview stories
o Company profiles, profiles of new merger and acquisition deals
o Long feature articles about new technologies and sales patterns
o Analytical stories about companies’ quarterly earnings
Achievements:
o Writing a story on an auto component company that helped move the stock price and an inquiry by the markets regulator into the story.
o Writing analytical trend stories that shaped opinions on the electric vehicles transition.
Author page: http://www.financialexpress.com/author/deepak-kumar/
Copy Editor, Moneycontrol, Network18, Mumbai April 2016 – May 2017
Writing business, finance and economy related stories.
Writing stories based on interviews with management of companies.
Handling social media (Instagram, Twitter and Facebook)
Maintaining high hits using various SEO techniques
Working on small infographs for social media
Filing stories from wires like PTI, Reuters, etc.
Achievements:
o Writing data based stories about stocks of various companies from different sectors that affected the markets.
o Coverage of the Government’s Budget live on various platforms simultaneously to garner multiple hits to the website.
Freelancer, Firstpost, Network18, Mumbai, April 2016 – Present
Writing technology related features and opinion pieces.
Intern, Moneycontrol, Mumbai November 2015- December 2015
Worked with CNBC TV18 for two weeks, to analyse their programming.
Worked on infograph based stories.
Started the Instagram page and uploaded one post everyday
Writing business, finance and economy related stories.
Intern, The Hindu, Chennai April 2015- June 2015
Worked with the city desk and reported for various beats like health, education,
environment, entertainment.
Wrote various features for the city pages.
Worked with the daily supplement Metro Plus
Interned with Rural Litigation and Entitlement Kendra (RLEK), Dehradun
Prepared press releases for events
Prepared the script, questions for interviews and took some shots for a
documentary about the contributions of RLEK to help certain indigenous tribes
around Dehradun.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Masters in Mass Communication (Journalism), Symbiosis Institute of Media and
Communication, Pune. CGPA 3.0
B.Com (Marketing), Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune. Score: 60%
OTHER PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN
Wrote a research paper on “Need for Piracy”, which helped determine the need that
drove people to piracy
Dissertation on news startups and their chances of survival in this cut throat business.
SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE
Photoshop, Indesign and Quark Express
Programming Languages like C#, SQL, Visual Basic
Excel, Word and Powerpoint
Skills
- business journalism
- business news editing
- content writing
- copy editing
- journalism
- news reporting
Education
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Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication
- 2014/16 Master's
Experience
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Financial Express
- 2017/18 Correspondent