Accredited Journalist, Government of Orissa
Editor-in-Chief, Orissamatters.com
A working journalist for over 30 years, SCP was the Secretary of Orissa
Union of Journalist and a Permanent Special Invitee to the National Executive
of National
Union of Journalists (India). The founder of popular column
'Sinhabalokana' in The
Sambad, he has the penchant for amalgamating news with views
in all his write-ups, aimed at a society increasingly getting fed with
mere (mis)information banks. His funda of life is "unto the tradition
till the last", being reflected through Orissamatters.com. This site,
he says pertains to all that matters to the Oriyas of the world.
SCP has been acclaimed as the first Web-Journalist of India and Orissamatters.com
has been the first website to be accredited by the Government in India.
Contact SCP at scp@orissamatters.com
Saswat Pattanayak
Online News Editor; Webmaster
Currently doing his Ph.D. in Journalism from the University
of Maryland, Saswat Pattanayak is a post-graduate in Industrial
Psychology as well as Mass Communication. Having been a spendthrift reporter
since he came out of Indian
Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi in the Summer of
'99, he has been trained in reporting at The
Economic Times, New Delhi, laid layouts and covered extensively
as a reporter for The
Asian Age at Bhubaneswar and been Staff Writer for The
Hindustan Times at Bhubaneswar and Ranchi. An incorrigible
optimist, he has also initiated a popular psychology magazine 'Ego' psychology
magazine 'Ego' with his comrades. Funda of life: Replace, not
change. He blogs at Saswat.com
Contact Saswat at blog@saswat.com
Sk Ziauddin Ali
Advisor (Technical)
Produces
more anti-viruses than the existing threats in IT. Zia has a flair for
tasking himself not too long on a job, because he finishes things even
before one realizes. NIIT,
ORICOM,
Wintech and SRM Radiant have already employed him and he has not been
reported to have given any of them sleepless nights. One helluva nocturnal
programmer, he 'webs' magic. His funda of life runs contrary to all that
he says he stands for: spreading confusion is the key!
Ziauddin is the Tech expert based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Contact Zia at zia@orissamatters.com
Chinmoy
Biswal
Staff Writer (New Delhi)
A postgraduate in
Sociology from Delhi
School of Economics, Chinmoy Biswal is currently pursuing a
PhD in Social Medicine and Community Health from Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. Instinctively attracted to journalism,
he has edited news reports and broadcasts for Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting, Government of India, and read national news bulletins
in Oriya on All
India Radio for over three years now. Largely self-taught,
Chinmoy is now enrolled for a post-graduate diploma in Journalism and
Mass Communication from Indira
Gandhi National Open University.
With interests ranging from political to developmental and from global
to local, he looks forward to a news-world when mass media would truly
mean masses’ media.
Contact Chinmoy at chinmoy2005@gmail.com
