APARNA DESIKAN

No 5/D Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Karthik Homes, Divyam Apartments Virugambakkam, Chennai 600092 Mobile No: +91 9840128371 Email id: appudesi@gmail.com SUMMARY
Currently pursuing a post graduate diploma course in New Media journalism at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, where I have acquired reporting, writing and editing skills. Additionally, I have been exposed to different tools that enhance storytelling across various platforms. I am willing to work in any media organization that would enable me to apply the acquired skills.

EDUCATION Qualification
Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism Graduate in Electrical Engineering (B.E.) 10+2

Institution
Asian College of Journalism, Chennai SSN College of Engineering Balalok Matriculation Higher Secondary School

Year
2013-2014 2006-2010 2004-2006

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-2014
During the course of study, I had worked on various reporting assignments. Few of the stories can be found in the college news websites. As a part of the Covering deprivation project, I had reported on the issues of the deprived communities in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. My dissertation was on the impact of advertisements and media on the brands. Interviewed marketing professionals and consumers for the same. Worked on an investigative report that dealt with potentially unsafe, Schedule-H medicines being sold over the counter.

Worked on editing and curating for the live blog coverage of the 15th Annual Polestar awards conducted in October 2013 and the Conference on Media & Public Interest conducted by the British Deputy High Commission in February 2014. Worked on reporting for the Pop-up newsroom, a global mobile journalism project, in November 2013.

2010-2013 Worked as a Programmer Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai, where I had developed programs in mainframe and COBOL (a programming language).

CORE SKILLS
Reporting Editing Online/digital media tools and techniques Writing for the web and SEO techniques Multimedia storytelling Data Visualization

INTERESTS
Health reporting (attended health elective) City beat, features Reporting on arts(attended the arts and culture elective)

OTHER DETAILS
Date of Birth: 01-07-1989

LANGUAGES KNOWN
English (Can read, write and speak fluently) Tamil (Can read and Speak fluently) Hindi (Can speak)

I hereby declare that the information given above is true to the best of my knowledge.