Krishna Prasad (journalist)

Krishna Prasad
Native name ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಪ್ರಸಾದ
Born (1968-10-12) October 12, 1968
Mysore
Occupation Journalist
Employer Outlook

Krishna Prasad (born 12 October 1968) is a progressive Indian journalist. He is presently Editor-in-Chief of the news magazine Outlook. He also publishes three different blogs: Churumuri, which focuses on the culture of Mysore and Karnataka, the media blog Sans Serif and Kosambari, a food blog focused on vegetarian south Indian cuisine. He is known for having exposed match-fixing in Indian Cricket along with Aniruddha Bahal.

Early life

Krishna Prasad was born in Mysore into a Kannada-speaking south Indian family. He attended the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) school. He then enrolled in an engineering college to study electronics engineering, but "ducked out" without completing the program.[1]

Career

While he was still a student of engineering, Krishna Prasad began his media career as a stringer for the New Indian Express, under the editorship of T. J. S. George. He later worked for the Sunday Observer (now defunct) and the Times of India in Mumbai. From August 2006 to June 2007, Krishna Prasad edited the English-language daily Vijay Times (a sister publication of Times of India, which was later converted into Bangalore Mirror).[2] He then joined Outlook as a reporter and later became the magazine's special issues editor. In October 2008, he was appointed editor of Outlook, the progressive current affairs magazine published from New Delhi.

In March 2006, a few months before before joining Vijay Times, Krishna Prasad started publishing the Churumuri blog, after drawing inspiration from a speech delivered in colloquial Kannada by Captain G. R. Gopinath.[3] He later started the media blog Sans Serif, a media blog, and Kosambari, a blog focused on south Indian Vegetarian cuisine.

Krishna Prasad has taught journalism at various colleges and universities in India and the United States for many years. From August to October 2007, he traveled in the United States, lecturing on Indian media at Central Michigan University, Ball State University, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and Penn State University. He has also lectured at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; the National Defence College, New Delhi; and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration.

Krishna Prasad recently instituted the T S Satyan Memorial Awards for Photojournalism in association with Karnataka Photo News, a regional photo news agency.[4]

Thomas L. Friedman described Prasad as "one of the brightest young journalists I met in India" during a 2004 visit from the United States.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Interview
  2. ↑ India media news marketing India advertising Indian brands tv media newspapers
  3. ↑ "Interview with Krishna Prasad of Churumuri". 24 November 2011.
  4. ↑ http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/t-s-satyan-memorial-awards-for-photojournalism/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ↑ Thomas L. Friedman (21 March 2004). "Software of Democracy". The New York Times.
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