Debanjali Biswas

Digital Marketing Specialist

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India2 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Experienced journalist with diverse media expertise.
  • Led impactful research on children's media literacy.
  • Successfully coordinated nonprofit health initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Media and Nonprofit Communications Specialist.

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Skills

Core Skills

Media LiteracyQualitative ResearchEditingData PresentationJournalismProject CoordinationCommunity OutreachFundraisingSocial Media

Other Skills

CommunicationProofreadingWritingResearch SkillsPlanningNonprofit OrganizationsMedia OutreachNegotiationTreasury ManagementOperations ManagementTeamworkEvent ManagementLeadershipTeam ManagementTeam Leadership

About

Business reporter at The Ken. For story tips and leads, feel free to reach out on: debanjali.biswas.2000@gmail.com // debanjali@the-ken.com

Experience

2 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

The ken

Journalist

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Ndtv

Journalist

Apr 2024May 2024 · 1 mo · Delhi, India

The london school of economics and political science (lse)

Research Assistant

May 2023Jan 2024 · 8 mos

  • Researched children/adolescent media literacy in the UK via qualitative & quantitative data collection, focusing on their social media consumption, internet engagement, and awareness of digital rights. The project is undertaken in collaboration with the UK Government and US-based NGO Common Sense to implement improved media literacy curriculums across schools in the country.
  • Engaged with 200+ students across 4 schools via interviews, focus groups & observation sessions.
  • Designed project instruments such as interactive questionnaires and polls, with different complexity levels to account for primary and secondary school age-ranges.
  • Collected, transcribed, summarized and performed preliminary analysis on data, and prepared reports.
  • Drafted ethical forms and consent letters for administrative and financial formalities.
CommunicationMedia LiteracyQualitative Research

Oxford university press india

Copyediting Intern

Aug 2021Nov 2021 · 3 mos

  • Edited and proofread 8 English Language and Literature textbooks (1st to 8th grade).
  • Enhanced data presentation and implemented content maps in books to suit India’s New Education Policy 2020.
  • Catalogued and finalised reports on these alterations.
ProofreadingEditingData Presentation

The times of india

Journalism Intern

Jun 2021Jul 2021 · 1 mo

  • Researched, edited and proofread 100+ print-newspaper publications for the Kolkata branch of Times of India which boasts a daily readership of around 190,000 people.
  • Optimised news presentation to improve articles' reading experience within the print newspaper format.
  • The articles encompassed a wide range of topics: politics, healthcare and the pandemic, trade and socio-economic impacts, criminal incidents, celebrity news etc. in Kolkata and surrounding districts in West Bengal.
ProofreadingEditingWritingResearch SkillsJournalism

Cry - child rights and you

Communications Intern

Feb 2021Apr 2021 · 2 mos · Delhi, India

  • Coordinated 4 “Health and Hygiene” workshops for Covid-19 awareness for disadvantaged children in Delhi.
  • Negotiated partnerships to facilitate a TEDx talk on the neglect of child rights during the pandemic.
  • Undertook communications for a pandemic-relief fundraiser in collaboration with 10+ AIIMS doctors, which contributed towards CRY’s reach that supports over 3 million children across India.
PlanningNonprofit OrganizationsProject CoordinationMedia OutreachCommunity Outreach

Muskurahat foundation

Communications Officer for Fundraising

Jul 2020Jul 2020 · 0 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Raised ₹34,450 by contacting 40+ donors under the flagship project KEYtaab.
  • Funds went towards providing 400+ children living in Mumbai slums and NGO-provided shelter homes with mobile devices and teaching mentors to aid in online schooling during the pandemic.
NegotiationNonprofit OrganizationsCommunity OutreachFundraising

Help social welfare society

Social Media Marketing Intern

Jul 2020Jul 2020 · 0 mo · Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Designed awareness drives and online projects to disseminate information on health and safety during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
CommunicationSocial Media

Education

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Master's degree

Sep 2022Nov 2023

St. Stephen's College, Delhi

Bachelor of Arts - BA — English (Literature)

Jul 2019Jun 2022

Loreto House, Kolkata

High School Diploma

Apr 2016Apr 2019

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