{{short description|Indian journalist}} {{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} '''Sanjay Pugalia''' is a veteran Indian political and business [[List of Indian journalists#P|journalist]] with print and broadcast experience who is the former editor-in-chief of [[CNBC Awaaz]] in [[Mumbai]], India. He was hired as a senior news director by several start-up Hindi-language news channels at their launching, including [[ABP News|Star News]]<ref name="thehindu">{{cite news|title= Channel Moves |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/06/17/stories/2002061701340400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031107064737/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/06/17/stories/2002061701340400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2003|accessdate=21 September 2012|newspaper= [[The Hindu]] |date=17 June 2002}}</ref> and CNBC Awaaz.<ref name="hindustantimes">{{cite news|title=Business time with the PM|publisher=Hindustan Times|date=17 January 2005}}</ref> He is the Editorial Director of [[The Quint]] as of 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sanjay Pugalia on The Quint|url=https://www.thequint.com/author/47495/sanjay-pugalia-2|access-date=2021-07-23|website=TheQuint|language=en}}</ref>
He is the CEO & Editor in Chief - Media Initiatives in [[Adani Enterprises]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adani Enterprises appoints Sanjay Pugalia as CEO and editor-in-chief, Media Initiatives |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/adani-enterprises-appoints-sanjay-pugalia-as-ceo-and-editor-in-chief/2332999/ |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=Financialexpress |language=en}}</ref>
Star News and now CNBC Awaaz—all of which competed against [[Doordarshan]], India's public television network, and its DD News.<ref name="thetelegraph">{{cite news|title=India: Rising competition forces change in TV news treatment|publisher=The Telegraph (India)|date=27 January 2004}}</ref> The independent TV channels gave Hindi-language journalism in India a visible platform from which to compete against English-language journalism, which created a shift toward Hindi during this era.<ref name="hindi">{{cite news|first=Yogendra|last=Yadav|title=When Hindi became telegenic|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/when-hindi-became-telegenic/202817/0|publisher=The Indian Express|date=27 June 2007|accessdate=26 September 2012}}</ref>
== Personal == Sanjay Pugalia grew up in [[Sahibganj]], [[Jharkhand]], where his father was a businessman.<ref name="mylife">{{cite news|first=Seema|last=Pherwani|title=A Scribe to the Core|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/exec_life/y2k5/dec/30dec/mylife.htm|publisher=indiantelevision.com|date=30 December 2005|accessdate=25 September 2012}}</ref> Pugalia has university degrees in history and political science.<ref name="n18online">{{cite web |url=http://www.network18online.com/people.html#spugalia |title=Network18 |publisher=Network18online.com |accessdate=10 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318201420/http://www.network18online.com/people.html#spugalia |archivedate=18 March 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> During his student years, he read a magazine called ''Ravivaar'', which was edited by [[Surendra Pratap Singh]] and Pugalia says this Hindi-language publication influenced him to begin a career in journalism.<ref name="mylife" /> He is listed as a founding member of the Foundation for Media Professionals, which is a journalism association for all professionals regardless of format.<ref name="ffmp">{{cite web|title=Founding Members|publisher=Foundation for Media Professionals|url=http://www.fmp.org.in/index.php?page_id=40|accessdate=25 September 2012}}</ref>
== Career == In more than 25 years as a journalist, Sanjay Pugalia has worked in both print and broadcast journalism. He has worked with [[The Times Group]], ''[[Business Standard]]'',<ref name="tribune">{{cite news|last=Khosla|first= Mukesh |title=Star reshuffle |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020616/spectrum/tv.htm|accessdate=21 September 2012|newspaper=The Sunday Tribune|date=16 June 2002}}</ref> Aaj tak,<ref name="tribune" /> Zee News,<ref name="tribune" /> Star News,<ref name="tribune" /> and CNBC Awaaz.<ref name="hindustantimes" /> While he has worked in Hindi and English journalism, he has primarily been a Hindi-language journalist.
=== Print === He began his career as a journalist with the leading [[Hindi]] daily ''[[Navbharat Times]]'', an outlet of The Times Group, in 1982 and stayed for 10 years.<ref name="mylife" /> As a young correspondent, Pugalia filed a number of investigative reports involving big corporate houses between 1986 and 1991.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} He was the youngest person to be made special correspondent in the Times Group.<ref name="ffmp" /> He left ''Navbharat Times'' for the ''Business Standard'', an English newspaper, where he worked for three years and was deputy bureau chief.<ref name="mylife" /><ref name="tribune" />
=== Television === During the 1990s, Pugalia contributed to [[BBC]] [[Hindi]] Service's programmes.<ref name="n18online" /><ref name="itvo">{{cite web|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k4/mar/mar224.htm|title=Sanjay Pugalia joining TV18 as editor Hindi programming |publisher=Indiantelevision.com |date=22 March 2004 |accessdate=10 September 2012}}</ref>
He worked for [[TV Today Network]]. In 1996, Pugalia was appointed as associate executive producer with a newly launched [[Hindi]] television news show on the network's Aaj Tak channel.<ref name="tribune" /> S.P. Singh, who had earlier influenced Pugalia, was behind Aaj Tak.<ref name="hindi" /> During this time, Pugalia first became known among Indians for his live anchoring of election programmes in Hindi.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} He later left Aaj Tak for Nine Broadcasting, until it went out of business, and he was hired as the executive director of Zee News<ref name="tribune" /><ref name="businessindia">{{cite news|title=Headhunters hunting jobs|publisher=Business India|date=25 June 2001}}</ref>
He left to become news director for [[STAR TV (Asia)|Star TV]] in mid-2002 and work with former colleague from Nine Broadcasting [[Ravina Raj Kohli]], who was president of news, when Star launched its own 24-hour news channel.<ref name="thehindu" /> While a director at STAR News, he developed more consumer-oriented news programming in prime time shows.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} But he was there for only a short time in 2002 before the owner shuffled the staff.<ref name="times1">{{cite news|last=Digest|first=Executive|title=Star appoints ZEE's Pugalia|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-05-31/india-business/27127453_1_indian-bank-software-exporters-sebi-board|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103075004/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-05-31/india-business/27127453_1_indian-bank-software-exporters-sebi-board|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|accessdate=21 September 2012 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=31 May 2002}}</ref>
Since 2004, he has worked with CNBC-TV18, which launched in 2005.<ref name="hindustantimes"/><ref name="itvo" /> Five years later, he won an award for best news show host and said, "CNBC Awaaz has taken business news in Hindi into the mainstream of news on business. CNBC Awaaz has widened its reach and was able to attract viewers ..."<ref name="e4m">{{cite news|first=Shikha|last=Pandey|title=e4m INBA 2010: Industry honours the contributions of Kalanidhi Maran, Rajdeep Sardesai, G Krishnan, Barkha Dutt, Shazi Zaman, among others|publisher=exchange4media.com|date=5 September 2010}}</ref> With its emphasis on consumer news, CNBC Awaaz by 2010 had increased its audience fourfold since launching.<ref name="it">{{cite news|title=Finance Minister presents CNBC AWAAZ Consumer Awards 2010 for Indias Most Preferred Brands|publisher=Indiantelevision.com|date=29 June 2010}}</ref>
== Notable reporting assignments == * While at India TV Today Network, Pugalia covered the 1999 [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity|protests]] at the [[World Trade Organization]] in Seattle, Washington.<ref name="spi">{{cite news|first=D.|last=Parvaz|title=Media ready to go – with little protest to show|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|date=30 November 1999}}</ref> * While at CNBC Awaaz, Pugalia has interviewed Indian politicians such as [[L. K. Advani]],{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} [[Narendra Modi]],{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} and [[Nitish Kumar]].<ref name="ibtimes">{{cite news|title=CNBC Awaaz to Host 'Bihar Day' With Chief Minister Nitish Kumar|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/articles/384429/20120914/cnbc-awaaz-host-bihar-day-chief-minister.htm|work=International Business Times|date=12 September 2012|accessdate=25 September 2012}}</ref> He interviewed [[Devdutt Pattanaik]],{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} who writes about [[mythology]].
== Awards == * 2010 Suryadatta National Lifetime Award<ref name="award">{{cite news|title=India on course to self reliance in energy|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-02-08/pune/28138866_1_national-awards-lifetime-awards-institutes|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130103150906/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-02-08/pune/28138866_1_national-awards-lifetime-awards-institutes|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 January 2013|accessdate=22 September 2012|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=8 September 2010}}</ref> * 2010 Indian News Broadcasting Award for Best Hindi News Show Host<ref name="e4m" /><ref name="inb">{{cite news|title=Network18 bags 5 top honours at INB awards|url=http://content.ibnlive.in.com/article/02-Sep-2010tv/network18-bags-5-top-honours-at-inb-awards-130129-44.html|accessdate=22 September 2012|newspaper=IBN live|date=2 September 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130103152251/http://content.ibnlive.in.com/article/02-Sep-2010tv/network18-bags-5-top-honours-at-inb-awards-130129-44.html|archivedate=3 January 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
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