Arup Das

Contact details

Address: C-*, Ashoka

Apartment, Plot 8, Sector 12

Dwarka, New Delhi

Mobile number: 981*******

Email id: adgiz1@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Work Experience

AutoX Magazine, Comnet Publishers Pvt Ltd 05/2014 to current

• Senior Editor

• Test Drives and Reviews: Cars and Motorcycles

• Feature stories: Travelogue, Automobile Technology, Lifestyle

• Head of Technology and Gadgets site, XiteTech

• Concept notes for marketing and advertorials

• Contribute and edit stories for multiple platforms, including print, digital channels and various social media platforms.

• Evaluated and followed up on news leads and news tips to develop story ideas. Provided complete, accurate and compelling coverage of both anticipated and spontaneous news for print and online media.

• Consistently singled out as one of the most productive writers and have never failed to meet a deadline.

• Motorsports: WRC and MotoGP

Business Standard Private Limited

• Senior Consultant

• Contributed to automobile

section

• Provided editorial guidance

Mercedes-Benz magazine (Maxposure Media Group)

08/2008 to 08/2012

• Features Editor

• Maximised the magazine's success by increasing local content and focusing on commissioning freelance writers.

• Planned editorial content and layout. Assigned and edited stories, organised and wrote product reviews, wrote content for in-flight lifestyle and health magazines.

• Addressed accuracy and appropriateness of materials, including researching, writing, editing, proofreading, and posting web content.

• Wrote consistently on articles that connected to the readers and provided editorial/creative direction for the magazine and the client

• Reviewed, rewrote and approved copy developed by other team members.

• Arranged and conducted interviews with individuals knowledgeable about each story's subject matter.

• Principal Correspondent

• Heavily contributed to feature, reviews, motorsports and news content. Edited articles to be published, oversaw the development of content.

My background includes being a journalist for - 16 years. Currently, I'm a Senior Editor, and I have a proven track record in planning, coordinating, revising and have a good judgment to decide what content and articles should run in the magazine, the website and various social media platforms. I also handle digital media content and as a content developer and strategist, I manage the flow of communication between a company, the company staff, the media and the customer.

04/2013 to 08/2015

08/2012 to 04/2014

Auto Bild India, India Today Group

• Travelogue: Covered the entire old Mughal Route (Jammu & Kashmir), featured Asia's cleanest village (Meghalaya) and started annual big motorcycle ride story for Auto Bild and now continued at Auto Today.

• Head Advisor section: Technology, products and general advice.

• Head of the motorsports – Formula One including interviews with Fernando Alonso, Karun Chandhok, Adrian Sutil.

• Compiled a comprehensive F1 season preview magazine: Technicalities, rules, teams and drivers line

• Researched, developed, and compiled India's comprehensive tyre and car entertainment guides.

• Technology and contributed to Gadgets & Gizmos, India Today Group. The Indian Express – New Delhi 06/2005 to 08/2008

• Staff Writer

• Edited articles for style and grammar Page designing on QuarkXpress

• Reviews and features: Automobiles, travelogue and gadgets

• Worked on main news, international and city desk Le Matinal – New Delhi 05/2004 to 08/2005

• Sub-Editor

• Edit Desk: News, Entertainment, Business, Sports, Technology

• Features writing: Travelogue.

• Reporting, including interviewing Mauritius Leader of the Opposition Navin Ramgoolam.

Hindustan Times, Delhi 06/2003 to 08/2004

• Sub-Editor

• Reporting & Page-making.

• Editing.

Education

Institute of Media - YMCA Delhi Journalism 05/2002 to 04/2003

• Post-Graduate Diploma: Journalism

Ravenshaw College - Cuttack 05/1999 to 04/2002

• Bachelor of Arts with Honours: Sociology

Demonstration Multipurpose School - Bhubaneswar

• Senior School Certificate Examination, CBSE

• Humanities

Air Force Bal Bharati School - New Delhi 04/1992 to 04/1997

• Secondary School Examination, CBSE

• Member of Interact Club

• Deputy Editor of School Newspaper

Alison — Online Learning

• Post-Graduate Certification:

Public Relations

06/2020 to 06/2020

04/1998 to 04/1999

Languages

English

Hindi

Oriya

References

• Joel Rai, Senior Editor, Times of India

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• Saurav Kumar, Assistant Editor, Times of India

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• Abhishek Chaliha, Digital Content Manager, AutoX Magazine adgiz1@r.postjobfree.com

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