Sumit Chakraborty

Head of Design

Delhi, India9 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led editorial teams across India and Southeast Asia.
  • Spearheaded major newspaper productions and initiatives.
  • Produced engaging content for multiple platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media and Journalism expert with extensive editorial experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

EditingJournalism

Other Skills

ResearchStorytellingCopy-editingFact-checkingWritingTeam ManagementProofreadingContent ReviewContent ProductionInvestigative ReportingBloggingSocial MediaCreative WritingMicrosoft OfficeReport Writing

About

Business & technology journalist.

Experience

The ken

3 roles

Head of Desk

Promoted

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Working with multiple Desk Editors and Reporters across India and Southeast Asia to shape powerful ideas into compelling and lucid prose
  • Editing original and deeply reported business stories
  • Working on long-form features, newsletters, and data-driven analyses
  • Monitoring the progress of writers and editors, providing feedback on drafts, and ensuring intelligent argumentation
  • Taking the final draft and elevating it to the highest standards of reporting and story-telling
  • Copy-editing, fact-checking, and rewriting
EditingResearchStorytellingCopy-editingFact-checkingJournalism

Deputy Head of Desk

Promoted

Jun 2023Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Desk Editor

Jun 2022Jun 2023 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Livemint

Assistant Editor

Nov 2021Jun 2022 · 7 mos

  • Spearheaded every aspect of newspaper production.
  • Managed a team comprising editorial staff and reporters.
  • Prepared story line-ups.
  • Researched for graphics.
  • Edited business news stories, data research for GDP, inflation, monetary policy, M&A, technology, fintech, etc.
  • Wrote and edited stock and bond market-related copies.
  • In charge of business pages of Hindustan Times for New Delhi and
  • other centres.
  • HIGHLIGHT: Involved in planning and leading big-ticket days (Budget 2022 edition).
EditingResearchWritingTeam ManagementJournalism

Times of india

Copyeditor

Feb 2019Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • As part of ‘print' team at Delhi NCR desk, covered all city-based issues among other things for
  • newspaper
  • Worked with reporters in several domains, including business, politics, technology, education,
  • health and more
  • Reviewed and edited content for correct grammar and style
  • Reviewed and edited final copy for accuracy and oversaw all phases of production
  • Followed through on beat sources, contacts and leads to gather information for stories
  • Proofread, edited, and evaluated final copy to verify content aligned with established
  • guidelines
  • HIGHLIGHT: Played instrumental role in creative planning and review sessions, working
  • with resourceful team to elevate quality of content and design of the newspaper
EditingProofreadingContent Review

Gadgets 360

Journalist

Jan 2018Dec 2018 · 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Wrote, edited and produced stories for multiple platforms, including Internet and digital
  • channels (Technology beat)
  • Edited reporters' copies daily based on the organisation's strict laid down guidelines
  • Contributed towards gadgets' reviews and feature stories
  • Pitched ideas and created content for the video platform
  • Applied understanding of public opinion, social media and traditional media use to create
  • engaging and attention-grabbing stories
  • Evaluated and followed up on news leads and news tips to develop story ideas
  • Researched content and grammatical issues to check accuracy of information
  • HIGHLIGHT: Visited a mobile phone manufacturing factory in China to understand the
  • workings of their latest quick-charging technology
WritingEditingResearchJournalism

The financial express

Sub-editor

Jun 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Single-handedly managed technology segment for website
  • Received a significant understanding of the technology/ telecom related news, Google
  • Analytics, and similar aspects
  • Collaborated with customer outreach personnel to ascertain audience demographics,
  • incorporating collected data into future copy
  • Produced stories on Technology, Telecom, Finance, Politics (India&International), and Conflict
  • HIGHLIGHT: From the website being placed nowhere, managed to push the Technology
  • news content to a position where it regularly featured on Google News as well as
  • generated relatively good page views every month.
EditingContent Production

Education

Asian College of Journalism

Journalism

Jan 2015Jan 2016

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B.Tech — Computer Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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