User:Siken Shekhar

Siken Shekhar is a young Indian Journalist & maximum performance strategist. Shekhar is currently a Core Faculty member in Mass Communication & Journalism Department at the Indian Film and Television Institute, Meerut. Siken Shekhar was born in Bihar, Madhurapur on 12th October 1994. He comes from a family of eminent Doctor. He passed his 10th standard board examination from G.A.Inter School in Hajipur, Bihar and His 12th standard board examination from S.M.Inter College. He graduated with a degree in Mass Communication Advertising & Journalism from Indian Film & Television Institute Meerut in 2014 and doing Master's degree in Mass Communication from Ambedkar Institute for Higher Education Patna. Siken Shekhar has worked with Primus Telecom & 24 Talk (United Kingdom’s Telecom Companies). He began his career in TV news broadcast with channel one news in 2012, where he was reporting from Meerut. Later as the intern, he was part of Haryana regional news channel Janta TV in 2013. He later shifted his career in TV news broadcast with News 7 in 2014. He anchored daily news show and hosted the special show Media as a 4th pillar. He also hosted one of the channel's top rated news show Mouzuda Halaat. He was responsible for the overall editorial content of the channel. He is regularly contributing opinion articles, columns, news analysis, features and op-eds to various ground level newspapers & magazines including Siasat, Nai Peedhi, Amar Bharti etc. As a columnist, Siken writes his views freely on most socially, economically & politically current issues in his blog Beyond the Third Eye. He has won numerous other awards for Journalistic excellence, including the prestigious Journalist Humanity Achievers Award in 2015. He has won the Media Award for excellence in Journalism by Chandra group of institute in 2014. He honored with the people's choice most popular reality show 'Competition Ka Maha Sangram' Best Anchor Award for the year 2013. He has also awarded with the Best Anchor of the Year Award by the Lakshya Sainik School in 2013.