{{Short description|Indian TV anchor and journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}} {{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Pankaj Pachauri | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1963|09|24}} | birth_place = [[New Delhi, India]] | death_date = | death_place = | education = [[St. John's College, Agra]]<br> Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute | occupation = [[News Anchor]] and [[Managing Editor]] of [[New Delhi Television|NDTV]] | alias = | title = | family = | spouse = | domestic_partner = | children = | relatives = | years_active= 1997 – present | credits = GoNews, ''Hum Log'', ''Money Mantra'' | agent = | website = www.gonewsindia.com }} [[File:Pankaj-Pachauri.jpg|thumb]] '''Pankaj Pachauri''' ({{langx|hi| पंकज पचौरी}}, born 24 September 1963) is an Indian [[TV presenter|TV anchor]] and journalist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Gonews, India's first app based TV News channel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/news-broadcasting/pankaj-pacharis-go-news-unveils-logo-170215|title=Pankaj Pachauri's Go News unveils logo | date=15 February 2017 | accessdate=15 July 2018 | publisher=Indian Television}}</ref>

== Career == Pachauri was associated with [[NDTV]] for 15 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://connect.in.com/pankaj-pachauri/profile-542890.html |title=Pankaj Pachauri is a TV Anchor |publisher=Pankaj Pachauri profile at in.com |access-date=22 September 2011 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708160122/http://connect.in.com/pankaj-pachauri/profile-542890.html |archive-date=8 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also associated with other international media houses including the BBC, India Today, The Sunday Observer and tha Patriot newspaper.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://social.ndtv.com/pankajpachauri |title= Pankaj Pachauri Profile|publisher=Pankaj Pachauri profile at NDTV}}</ref> He has been a member of the [[National Integration Council]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/mhahindi/files/pdf/NIC-List150410.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=30 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305072349/http://mha.nic.in/hindi/sites/upload_files/mhahindi/files/pdf/NIC-List150410.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In January 2012, Pachauri was appointed as the Communications Adviser to the Prime Minister's Office in India under Dr Manmohan Singh, where he designed and executed the PMO's media strategy across various platforms for international events. Pachauri participates in television debates and speaks at institutions like the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He has served on the Academic Councils of Indian Institute of Mass Communication New Delhi and Mass Communication and Research Centre, Jamia Milia University, Delhi<https://jmi.ac.in/upload/jamiadocs/JAMIA/2010august17.pdf>. From 2015 to 2016 he was director at the Jaypee Business School, Noida.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jbs.ac.in/jbs-director |title=JBS Director - Jaypee Business School Noida &#124; Jaypee Business School Delhi NCR &#124; Jaypee Business School UP |accessdate=2015-10-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109050832/http://jbs.ac.in/jbs-director |archivedate=2015-11-09 }}</ref>

== Awards == He won 'The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting' in 1989 for his exposé on the practice of female infanticide in [[Rajasthan]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7I4aHMgsaAC&q=pankaj+pachauri+born&pg=PA572 |title= Pankaj Pachauri Journalism|publisher=Loops and Roots by Purnima Chattopadhaya - Dutt|isbn= 9788170246596|year= 1995}}</ref> For his contribution to free and fair journalism, he has won many other awards like Indian Telly Award (2009) JayJaivanti Award(2009) Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award (2008) and South Asia Journalism Award (1998)

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==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vG6Tuvp9xs Pankaj Pachauri defends PM Manmohan Singh's ten-year tenure] * [http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/money-mantra/the-current-state-of-electoral-reforms/209412 The current state of electoral reforms] * [http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/money-mantra/e-governance-in-india-challenges-and-future/210589 The current state of electoral reforms] * NDTV Wins Awards [https://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/corporatepage/Awardswonlist2009.aspx] * List of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthee Awardees [https://hindisarang.com/ganesh-shankar-vidyarthi-award/] * Pankaj Pachauri on Journalism in 2017 [https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/journalism-in-india-is-in-crisis-says-senior-journalist-pankaj-pachauri/story-b5b0WJIj5uh75qa0VDuTGP.html]

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