Dr. Vartika Nanda’s core expertise lies in journalism – its teaching, practice and training. With a PhD degree by her side in Journalism, she is currently a permanent member of the teaching faculty as Head of the Department in the Department of Journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, India. Nanda has also taught TV journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi as Associate Professor for three years.
Nanda has held various journalistic assignments in Zee News, STAR News, NDTV, Lok Sabha TV and worked with Sahara India Media as its programming head. She sneaked into print journalism while her engagement as a Joint Editor of a magazine, Sablog. As regular columnist she contributed for over two years to The Pioneer till 2007 and she continues contributing columns to three leading national dailies as freelancer. Presently, she is the Associate Editor with a quarterly, Communication Today. On training front, she has held media training of stingers and budding journalists in TV news medium in Delhi and also held a number of workshops in Delhi, Jaipur, Bhopal, Ranchi, Nainital and Patna. Her training workshops on anchoring and reporting as well as consultancy to students for their entrance tests to premier media teaching institutes like IIMC, JAMIA, ASJ etc are increasingly becoming popular. Nanda is the recipient of the Bharatendu Harishchandra Award for the year 2005. Bharatendu Harishchandra Awards are given by the Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting since 1983 to promote original writings in Hindi on journalism and mass communications. Nanda has been given the award for her book, Television aur Apraadh Patrkarita.” In 2007, she received the Sudha Patrakarita Samman for outstanding writing on media issues. Vartika Nanda also has contributed to the book, Making News edited by Uday Sahay. The book published by Oxford University Press contains a series of articles on the state of media in India and the various genres of journalism. Nanda’s article in the book is titled as, Television Crime Reporting in India.