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Comment: This isn't showing three examples of the WP:GOLDENRULE - so independent people writing about the subject, such as a newspaper profile. In the Anglosphere it is very difficult to get articles on journalists, along with photographers and museum curators (much easier in French or Russian cultures), since no-one seems to write about them in significant depth until they are dead. A subject can't drive their own notability.Separately there is quite a lot of facts here were are unsourced, per WP:BLP, and these too need sourcing, though they can be primary / non-independent in many cases. ChrysGalley (talk) 07:43, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
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Jayanta Roy Chowdhury is an Indian journalist and columnist. With a career spanning over 35 years, he is currently Editor of United News of India, a major Indian news agency. He has earlier worked with prominent media organisations, including the Press Trust of India (PTI), where he headed the wire agency's Eastern India operations, and The Telegraph, where he was Senior Editor.
He covers South Asia's political, economic, and cultural affairs, including reportage from Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and other countries.
He has written columns and editorial pieces in the Free Press Journal.[1], Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle[2], The Hindu Business Line[3], The Wire[4], Asian Affairs[5], Ei Somoy (Bengali), and Aajkal (Bengali). He is also involved with a number of economic and strategic think tanks.
Early Career and Education
[edit]Jayanta began his career as a Sub-Editor at United News of India (UNI) from 1986 to 1988. He then worked as a Commissioning Editor with Macmillan India Ltd. between 1989 and 1992. He was educated at The Frank Anthony Public School, New Delhi, and holds a degree in Economics from Delhi University. He was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the British government to pursue work on economic reforms in developing countries at the University of Bradford, UK.
Professional Experience
[edit]Jayanta worked as a Senior Correspondent at The Pioneer from 1992 to 1995. From 1995 to 2019, he served at The Telegraph's Delhi office, rising to Chief of Bureau and later Senior Editor.
His reporting included a story on sugar imports from Pakistan during the 1999 Kargil war[6], a 2001 series on the Balco disinvestment[7], and 2017 coverage of the potential misuse of electoral bonds[8].
From April 2019 to February 2021, he served as Business Editor for The New Indian Express[9], where he revamped the business pages and introduced new business features and analysis coverage, including a series on migrant workers during the COVID-19 lockdown[10]
From March 2021 to December 2023, he worked at the Press Trust of India as Resident Editor–Eastern India, overseeing its team across 11 states and union territories with regional headquarters in Kolkata, while continuing to report on the Bengal elections[11], panchayat polls[12], movies[13], the Manipur ethnic clashes[14], militancy in the northeast[15], and the Chinese intrusions in the Northeast[16]. Under his watch, PTI's video operations in eastern India launched and grew into a leading source of video-based news from the region.
He returned to Delhi in 2024, initially as Consulting Editor and then as Editor-in-Chief of The Secretariat[17], a policy and economy website, until end-August 2025.
In November 2025, he joined UNI to lead its editorial operations, overseeing reporters, desk editors, and stringers across India. Under his tenure, UNI re-introduced its Analysis and Feature Service, and All India Radio, Doordarshan, and a number of newspapers and digital outlets resumed subscribing to UNI.
Contributions
[edit]Jayanta has contributed articles and opinion pieces to publications including Businessworld, Yojana, Desh (a Bengali magazine from the ABP Group), and Asian Affairs (London). He is a regular columnist for The Free Press Journal (Mumbai) and Bangladesh Pratidin (Dhaka). He has appeared as an analyst on All India Radio's "Market Mantra" and on Doordarshan as a political and business commentator.
Awards and Positions
[edit]He received the Dakshina Ranjan Bose Memorial Award for 2023 from the Press Club, Kolkata, for "enabling readers across the country to have a better understanding of politics, economics and cultural issues of Bengal and north-eastern states... for being a neutral observer, looking at everything with a critical eye and lucid writing."
He has served as Honorary Secretary of the Commonwealth Journalists' Association (CJA) and as Treasurer of The Media Foundation, New Delhi, and has served on its board.
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Author archive: Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Author archive: Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Author profile: Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". The Hindu BusinessLine. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Author archive: Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". The Wire. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Author archive: Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". Asian Affairs. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Sharif sugar wagons steamroll Atal claim". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Balco runs into missile production role hurdle". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Cash cloak for parties". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Author archive: Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "India's Long March". Asian Affairs. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "The fault lines in Bengal's electoral battleground". Rediff. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Bengal panchayat elections: parties woo migrant workers' vote". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Emerging from Satyajit Ray's shadow: film-maker Sandip Ray". ThePrint. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Former residents of Imphal's Paite Veng relive their 'Kristallnacht'". ThePrint. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "From guns to democracy: the saga of Bijoy Hrangkhawl". ThePrint. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Bumla Pass: India-China face-off in the high Himalayas". Rediff. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
- ↑ "Articles by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury". The Secretariat. Retrieved 9 August 2026.
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