Media Academician, Journalist and Writer Pradeep Kumar Mathur

Experience As Media Trainer or Media Academician:

As a media trainer he has richly contributed to various academic programmes of the Institute. Besides giving his input in various short courses he has been involved with the following programmes.

• Post graduate Programme in English Journalism
• Post-graduate Programme in Radio and TV Journalism
• Post-graduate Programme in Hindi Journalism
• Post graduate Programme in Advertising & Public Relations
• Non-aligned News Agency Programme now renamed as Development Communication Courses
• India Information Service Programme.

In addition to this he has also made his contribution at other centres of media education. He has been an expert and visiting faculty at Delhi University. Nationality known for his contribution to media education he has served as a member of Research Degree Committee, Board of Studies and Selection Committees of more than 30 universities. Moreover, he has been invited as a visiting faculty, External examiner, subject expert or as a resource person to lead seminars at various universities and institutes.

Some of the prominent universities and centres of media education and communication centres with which Prof Mathur has been academically associated are as follows :

a. Central Universities BHU, Varanasi; Assam University, Silchar, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha; Allahabad University ,Allahabad, Dr H.S. Gaur University, Saugar. and Calcutta University, Kolkata

b. Prominent state universities: Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi, CCS University, Meerut; Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra; Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar; Mahrishi Dayaanand University, Rohtak; Lucknow University, Lucknow; Kashmir University, Srinagar; GGS Indraprastha University, University, New Delhi; Mangalore University, Mangalore; Rohilkhand University, Bareilly; Panjabi University, Patiala.

c. Prominent organizations/Institutes: Union Public Service Commission(UPSC), New Delhi; Officers Training Institute, Nainital; YMCA Centre for Mass Media, New Delhi; Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra; State Institute of Rural Development, Nelokhari, Haryana; State Institute of Rural Development, Lucknow; Bankers’ Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

Experience as a Professional Journalist :

Pradeep K. Mathur has served as a working journalist/editor from 1966 to 1989 at Kanpur, Lucknow, Chandigarh, New Delhi and Varanasi in various newspapers and news magazines of standing. He has held almost every important position in newspapers from sub-editor. He has been Chief Sub, Deputy News Editor, Chief News Editor, Special Correspondent, Assistant Editor, Resident Editor, Acting Editor and Consulting Editor.

Some of the highlights of his journalistic career are:
 As the Resident Editor of the Varanasi edition of the Pioneer (1985-86) he built up a daily newspaper from scratch. He identified potential young men and women, trained them and in the process built a fine professional team.
 As acting editor of the Lucknow edition of The Pioneer (1985-86) he geared up the working of the paper and helped sustain its efforts to meet the challenge posed by the Times of India in Lucknow. He generated ideas and endeavored to put them into practice often in face of the resistance from complacent colleagues. He revamped the Sunday Magazine and the off-day edit page of the paper and set up a highly functional reference cell something the newspaper badly needed.
 Earlier, as the News Editor of National Herald, New Delhi (1980-81) he helped the revival of the paper in the post - Janata era. Many new features were introduced and the look of the paper was vastly improved when problems at the top undermined the professional effort being made lower down.

 Later, as a special correspondent (1981-84) he covered the two Houses of Parliament, important ministries, political parties and among other the state of UP which was most important for the paper which had an edition from Lucicnow too. He wrote a daily as well as a weekly column on Parliament.

 He also covered the seventh non-aligned summit, CHOGAM and the 12th World Energy Congress. He wrote a book "Non-aligned Movement: New Delhi and Beyond" which was released by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in February 1984. The book got good reviews in Indian as well as foreign journals.

 He also edited the international weekly of National Herald in the capacity of Assistant Editor, and wrote a weekly column on national and international scene.

 He covered Punjab University covered beyond university politics. In 1973 he covered the Chandigarh session of the Indian Science Congress. In 1976 he reported on Rohtak University and in 1977 he wrote four pieces on the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla, where he went at the invitation of its Director, Dr SC Dube.

 In 1968 he attended a Press Institute of India workshop for reporters in Lucknow and reported on it in the PIT house journal 'Vidura'.

 In 1979 he conducted a study of the press coverage of the parliamentary elections in three constituencies of Punjab. The study was sponsored by the Second Press Commission.

 In order to practice what he has been professing, he also organised a news syndicate and edited a country paper.  He has also been involved with the electronic media almost right from the start of his career as a journalist. In 1968 he was the first presenter and producer of the All India Radio's Yuv Vani programme for the youth in UP. He conducted this programme as well as other programmes for the Lucknow station of AIR.

 He wrote Commentary on parliamentary proceedings for All India Radio in the eighties when he worked as a Special Correspondent in New Delhi.

 He has been producing and presenting this week programme for the National Channel of All India Radio for quite some time.

 He has been associated with the External Service Division of All India Radio and has been producing scripts on them mainly on international affairs and economic matters.

 He has written for Doordarshan and Zee TV. For Doordarshan he has been writing commentaries on parliamentary proceedings. He has also conducted TV interviews and has also been interviewed on TV.

 Acted as a judge in Aap Ki Adalat.

 Did IGNOU Phone-In Programmes on Mass Communication.

As Book Writer

Followings are the upcoming books of Pradeep Kumar Mathur

a. In defence of journalism
b. My Tribune days
c. My life as a teacher