Devika Chitnis E-mail : [email protected] Phone : 099-883-390-160/ 099-305-358-12 Work experience CNBC - TV18 Aug 2011 — Aug 2013 Technology Journalist-Assistant Producer Conceptualised, reported and produced on a technology show called Tech Toyz (later known as Switch) Reported tech stories for the CNBC- TV18 news show, India Business Hour Produced stories for India's Angels, a business feature show on angel investors. Reported on a couple of stories for Tech Guru, CNBC Awaaz Highlights One of the shows, I worked on won an NTaward for the best tech show. The show was called the retro special where we spoke about retro futuristic gadgets like the Vespa, Lomo cameras and digital Vinyl record players. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WVJdo6W0Jo Shot and reported a travel story from Punjab on a smartphone. Here are some of the stories, I produced and reported for Tech Toyz/Switch. 1) The Bokeh story: Bokeh is type of photography. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeukLvdp3Pw (9:18) 2) The BlackBerry Q10 episode was under my production. My story is on (16:21) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDYOkZHkLdc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB-0fV0vwRw (10:22) 3) And we also decided to take the party to work with the Gangnam Style episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6HAq-EOWnA Times Now June 2011 — Aug 2011 Production Assistant Produced news stories. Most of them were international news stories. The prominent one was the 'News Of The Week' scandal. Worked on 'The Newshour' with Arnab Goswami BBC World News (TV and Radio) May 2010 — July 2010 Intern Worked on a business feature television show called India Business Report Worked on BBC English & Hindi Radio. Reported for one radio story on a meteorite crater in Lonar, Maharashtra The Times of India and Femina 2007 — 2010 Freelance writer Devika Chitnis 1 Personal Projects Ogilvy's ad for Mentos India Assistant Director/Cinematographer/ Actor This was a freelancing project. After Mentos' Dimag Ki Batti Lala De, Ogilvy came up with Khooni Kaun hai. The ones I worked for were a series of YouTube ads. The one I acted in: 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaZx8RLDgIY&list=TLCSTwrX9WP1w 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_drCnmOkI The one I shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lj0sNDXJYY&list=TLAyYHINe_to4 Education Bachelor's of Media Studies - Journalism 2008 — 2011 Symbiosis Institute of Media Studies (UG) HSC Fergusson College Interests 1) Modelled for an art photographer called Manjiri Sharma for her project, Darshan. Her idea was to document Indian gods and goddess into a series of photographs. I was a part of the project as Sarswati. The photographs are now put up in New York in an exhibition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWUe5NzKRqc 2) Completed 4 years of Kathak 3) Was a gold medallist in Shiamak Davar's Institute of Performing Arts 4) Intermediate graduate in drawing References Jayashankar B Channel Director, CNBC-TV18 0 9819 774 815 Suresh Venkat Former Tech Editor, CNBC-TV18 9820-298-272 Ankit Vengurlekar Anchor & Series Producer 09819-000-393 Devika Chitnis 2 Devika Chitnis 3.