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Balabhadra Rath:-[ born 15 may 1992 ] is an Odisha-based journalist, television and radio personality, author, poet, storyteller, scriptwriter, voice over artist, dramatist, columnist and entrepreneur. He is well known as a newsreader for his marvellous voice. He is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of a content creation and consultancy firm ‘The Stylus’. It deals with content development, creative writing, voiceover production, media-related work and translation. ‘The Stylus’ has two sister channels - Voicepost and Samayara Album.

Education Life :-Born in Badagada, a culturally-rich village near Bhanjanagar, known as a land of poets, in Ganjam District, Odisha. He belongs to a business family as well as a Royal Priest family of erstwhile Badagada kingdom.

    Balabhadra Rath did his schooling from H.S. Government High School, Badagada, and passed matriculation in 2007. He completed Plus Two commerce from K.S.U.B. College, Bhanjanagar, in 2009. He got his Bachelor in Commerce (B.Com) degree in 2012 from K.S.U.B College, which is affiliated to Berhampur University. After completing graduation he joined a PG Diploma Programme in Advanced Journalism and Broadcast Media at Academy for Media Learning, Bhubaneswar, in 2012-2013. He studied Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication at Odisha’s famed B.J.B. Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar, which is affiliated to Utkal University during the 2013-2015 academic sessions.

Career:- As a journalist, he began his career as a Reporter in a fortnightly magazine The Interview Times, published from Bhubaneswar, in 2012 and interviewed several distinguished personalities from various fields. Simultaneously he went to All India Radio, Cuttack, for compering of different programmes. He was the anchor of many renowned programme of AIR. Subsequently, on the invitation of then President of Odisha Sahitya Academy, and highly-acclaimed editor and well-known writer Satakadi Hota he joined ‘The Samaya’, a premier Odia daily, as a Sub-editor (Current Affairs and National wing). His commitment and dedication to the profession made him a known face in the field of journalism. Here he got state-level media award for excellence in journalism twice. When he was in ‘The Samaya’ he developed interest in broadcast media also. With an interest to learn he started moderating shows for Doordarshan, the national broadcaster.

His interest areas include developmental and culture/ literature programmes. He has closely studied and developed an understanding of the grammar of television. He has also acquired sound knowledge of radio and print journalism and has proved himself across platforms.

After gathering some experience he left ‘The Samaya’ in 2015. It was around that time when Kalinga TV news channel was launched in Bhubaneswar. He joined Kalinga TV as a news anchor and copy editor. In this organization he learned a lot about the nature of television production, anchoring and hosted several programmes. Here he rendered his service for almost a year. He shifted to ‘News World Odisha’, a leading media house as Associate Producer-cum-News reader. Here he worked as a primetime anchor and became a known face throughout Odisha. He also produced a weekly programme, ‘Charchita Chehera’, which was highly acclaimed. He was also the scriptwriter and voiceover man of this programme.

It was in 2017, when Prasar Bharati selected him as a Newsreader for DD News on assigned basis that he quit News World Odisha. Now he is an acclaimed Newsreader in DD News. It was his dream to become a Newsreader in Doordarshan and the dream has come true. In between he is consultant to a daily Odia newspaper.

He is also a columnist and writes regular in different Odia dailies and many reputed magazines. He is a good voiceover artist, scriptwriter, poet, storyteller and translator.

Balabhadra is a Drama artist at All India Radio, Cuttack, with ‘B’ Grade.

Recently he started a content creation and consultancy firm called ‘The Stylus’. This deals with content development, creative writing, voiceover production, media-related work, storytelling and translation. ‘The Stylus’ has two sister channels - Voicepost and Samayara Album. He is the Editor-in-Chief of this firm.

Awards:-State level Award for Excellence in journalism twice and many more.  

Occupation         Journalist, writer, storyteller, entrepreneur

Known for          News Reader, storyteller, columnist,

Voiceover

Email                 balabhadrar@gmail.com