December 2006, New Indian Express, when Kerala Govt signed MoU with ADB for Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
On Prathibha's friend
On Prathibha's Malayali friend during presidential elections, June 2007, Front Page, New Indian Express
Interview with Vatican's intergovernmental affairs secretary
An interview with Vatican's inter governmental affairs secretary during the time of Davinci Code controversy
Kerala's CPM and ADB
December 2006, New Indian Express, when Kerala Govt signed MoU with ADB for Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
BIO
MANU P. TOMS
REPORTER, THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Reporter with The Hindu Business Line, Mumbai (October 2007 to the present)
• Reporter with The New Indian Express, Kochi (Sept 2005 to October 2007)
• Sub-editor with Malayala Manorama, Kottayam (July 2004--- Aug 2005)
• Casual Reporter with Doordarshan, Thiruvananthapuram (May 2004)
• Reporter (internship) with The New Indian Express, Thiruvananthapuram (Oct 2003… March 2004)
CAREER PROFILE
INTERN, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (NOV 2003 – FEB 2004)
* Front page story on organic farmers from Kerala entering global market
* Eight feature stories for the ‘Weekend Express,’ the Saturday feature supplement with the daily. Two of them were lead stories.
* Covered International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), 2003
CASUAL REPORTER, DOORDARSHAN (MAY, 2004)
* Covered India’s national election from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
SUB-EDITOR, MALAYALA MANORAMA, KOTTAYAM (JULY 2004 – AUG 2005)
* Won internal recognition for a page one exclusive in Malayala Manorama which was later carried by BBC (Child labourer becomes Fulbright scholar)
* Did features for the paper’s Sunday Magazine, the one on hundredth year of Theory of Relativity was the cover page feature
* Handled sports page, city page, extra pages and district page
* Wrote features for the English edition of www.manoramaonline.com
REPORTER, NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, KOCHI (SEPT 2005 – OCT 2006)
* Covered Kochi Corporation, Navy and Greater Cochin Development Authority
* In charge of City Express, daily pull-out with the paper, leading a team of 10 reporters and coordinating with the desk. Duties included daily planning, scheduling, re-writing stories and giving value-addition for stories
* Tracked Kochi’s years-long garbage issue and problems involved in waste disposal, apart from issues related to urban transport and pollution
* Tracked Kerala State Government’s pact with the Asian Development Bank on Sustainable Urban Development Project
* Tracked developments and debates on India’s urban development programme – Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
* Interviewed Vatican's Secretary of Inter-governmental Affairs and Director of Basic Level Governance, People’s Republic of China
REPORTER, THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE, MUMBAI (OCT 2007 TO THE PRESENT)
* Tracking Indian automobile industry
* Tracked Tata Motors’ acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover, launch of the world’s most inexpensive car ‘Nano’
* Story on the row of radio active steel export was quoted in The Hindu editorial page article
* Stories on Indian corporates, business and MNCs are picked up by various websites around the world
* Was sent to Milan, Italy to report the global launch of sporty compact car Alfa Mito of Alfa Romeo
* Reported stories related to terror attack on Mumbai in November 2009
* Started covering private sector oil companies
PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
* Attended Reuters Foundation’s course on ‘Writing International News’ in Mumbai (Seven Indian and six US journalists were selected for the five-day course) and was trained under veteran Reuter’s journalist Nicholas Phythian.
* Attended South Asia media workshop on climate change organized by the Centre for Science and Environment
* Worked in five different cities including Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Mumbai and traveled across various states in India
* Conducted newspaper workshop for village school students, interactive session with undergraduate students in Social Work on ‘role of mass media in social activism’
* Attended national workshop on peace and conflict resolution organized by Centre for Studies in Society and Secularism in June 2003
* Undertook many socially constructive activities as National Service Scheme secretary in college and attended National Integration Camp held in 2000 at Wayanad district, Kerala
* Carried out academic research on People’s Plan Programme in Kerala as a project work for BA Functional English course
* Synopsis on ‘Perception of Liberalisation among the Lower Classes and the Dynamics of Political Communication’ was shortlisted for MPhil programme in Development Economics offered by JNU at CDS Thiruvananthapuram
* Maintaining a personal blog: http://reporterscrapbook.blogspot.com/
ACADEMIC
* Master of Communication and Journalism from Kerala University
* BA Functional English with Journalism from Kannur University
**********************
Links to a few of my exclusives on Nano:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/2009/03/26/stories/2009032650020100.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/05/30/stories/2008053051020300.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/03/23/stories/2009032350950700.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/02/27/stories/2009022750440200.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/02/21/stories/2009022150520200.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/02/27/stories/2009022750440200.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/04/02/stories/2009040252100200.htm
Links to a few of my Jaguar-Land Rover stories
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/01/04/stories/2008010452080400.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/02/10/stories/2008021051190100.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/02/27/stories/2008022752400200.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/11/25/stories/2008112552000200.htm
Reference in other publications, websites
http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/02/stories/2009030255471100.htm
http://obama.wsj.com/article/01175n4bZw2eg?q=Economic+Recession
http://spoonfeedin.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/mktg-the-selling-of-the-nano/
Interviews/special stories
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/07/06/stories/2008070650940201.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/09/17/stories/2008091751990200.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/2008/09/03/stories/2008090351921000.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2008/06/09/stories/2008060950100300.htm
Stories in the aftermath of 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/12/01/stories/2008120151470300.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/2008/12/01/stories/2008120151650100.htm
REPORTER, THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Reporter with The Hindu Business Line, Mumbai (October 2007 to the present)
• Reporter with The New Indian Express, Kochi (Sept 2005 to October 2007)
• Sub-editor with Malayala Manorama, Kottayam (July 2004--- Aug 2005)
• Casual Reporter with Doordarshan, Thiruvananthapuram (May 2004)
• Reporter (internship) with The New Indian Express, Thiruvananthapuram (Oct 2003… March 2004)
CAREER PROFILE
INTERN, THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM (NOV 2003 – FEB 2004)
* Front page story on organic farmers from Kerala entering global market
* Eight feature stories for the ‘Weekend Express,’ the Saturday feature supplement with the daily. Two of them were lead stories.
* Covered International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), 2003
CASUAL REPORTER, DOORDARSHAN (MAY, 2004)
* Covered India’s national election from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
SUB-EDITOR, MALAYALA MANORAMA, KOTTAYAM (JULY 2004 – AUG 2005)
* Won internal recognition for a page one exclusive in Malayala Manorama which was later carried by BBC (Child labourer becomes Fulbright scholar)
* Did features for the paper’s Sunday Magazine, the one on hundredth year of Theory of Relativity was the cover page feature
* Handled sports page, city page, extra pages and district page
* Wrote features for the English edition of www.manoramaonline.com
REPORTER, NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, KOCHI (SEPT 2005 – OCT 2006)
* Covered Kochi Corporation, Navy and Greater Cochin Development Authority
* In charge of City Express, daily pull-out with the paper, leading a team of 10 reporters and coordinating with the desk. Duties included daily planning, scheduling, re-writing stories and giving value-addition for stories
* Tracked Kochi’s years-long garbage issue and problems involved in waste disposal, apart from issues related to urban transport and pollution
* Tracked Kerala State Government’s pact with the Asian Development Bank on Sustainable Urban Development Project
* Tracked developments and debates on India’s urban development programme – Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission
* Interviewed Vatican's Secretary of Inter-governmental Affairs and Director of Basic Level Governance, People’s Republic of China
REPORTER, THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE, MUMBAI (OCT 2007 TO THE PRESENT)
* Tracking Indian automobile industry
* Tracked Tata Motors’ acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover, launch of the world’s most inexpensive car ‘Nano’
* Story on the row of radio active steel export was quoted in The Hindu editorial page article
* Stories on Indian corporates, business and MNCs are picked up by various websites around the world
* Was sent to Milan, Italy to report the global launch of sporty compact car Alfa Mito of Alfa Romeo
* Reported stories related to terror attack on Mumbai in November 2009
* Started covering private sector oil companies
PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
* Attended Reuters Foundation’s course on ‘Writing International News’ in Mumbai (Seven Indian and six US journalists were selected for the five-day course) and was trained under veteran Reuter’s journalist Nicholas Phythian.
* Attended South Asia media workshop on climate change organized by the Centre for Science and Environment
* Worked in five different cities including Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Mumbai and traveled across various states in India
* Conducted newspaper workshop for village school students, interactive session with undergraduate students in Social Work on ‘role of mass media in social activism’
* Attended national workshop on peace and conflict resolution organized by Centre for Studies in Society and Secularism in June 2003
* Undertook many socially constructive activities as National Service Scheme secretary in college and attended National Integration Camp held in 2000 at Wayanad district, Kerala
* Carried out academic research on People’s Plan Programme in Kerala as a project work for BA Functional English course
* Synopsis on ‘Perception of Liberalisation among the Lower Classes and the Dynamics of Political Communication’ was shortlisted for MPhil programme in Development Economics offered by JNU at CDS Thiruvananthapuram
* Maintaining a personal blog: http://reporterscrapbook.blogspot.com/
ACADEMIC
* Master of Communication and Journalism from Kerala University
* BA Functional English with Journalism from Kannur University
**********************
Links to a few of my exclusives on Nano:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/2009/03/26/stories/2009032650020100.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/05/30/stories/2008053051020300.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/03/23/stories/2009032350950700.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/02/27/stories/2009022750440200.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/02/21/stories/2009022150520200.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2009/02/27/stories/2009022750440200.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/04/02/stories/2009040252100200.htm
Links to a few of my Jaguar-Land Rover stories
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/01/04/stories/2008010452080400.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/02/10/stories/2008021051190100.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/02/27/stories/2008022752400200.htm
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/11/25/stories/2008112552000200.htm
Reference in other publications, websites
http://www.hindu.com/2009/03/02/stories/2009030255471100.htm
http://obama.wsj.com/article/01175n4bZw2eg?q=Economic+Recession
http://spoonfeedin.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/mktg-the-selling-of-the-nano/
Interviews/special stories
http://www.blonnet.com/2008/07/06/stories/2008070650940201.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/09/17/stories/2008091751990200.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/2008/09/03/stories/2008090351921000.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/ew/2008/06/09/stories/2008060950100300.htm
Stories in the aftermath of 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/12/01/stories/2008120151470300.htm
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/bline/2008/12/01/stories/2008120151650100.htm
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
