Orchie Bandyopadhyay

Lead research-based reporting on labour laws, gig economy, workplace safety and well-being for Safety Management magazine. Integrate technical and research insights into accessible, high-impact content while ensuring adherence to editorial and brand standards.

Directed content strategy and editorial planning across sectors and themes, ensuring timely delivery of stories reflecting key policy and economic shifts. Reviewed and refined technical briefs, op-eds and research-driven stories, and mentored a team of reporters.

Supervised editorial teams and managed high-volume news operations. Directly supervised other editors, reporters and writers, and anchored major stories.

Oversaw end-to-end editorial processes from ideation and interviews to layout and publication. Coordinated with internal and external stakeholders, including senior corporate leaders, for features and interviews.

Directed internal and external communications, including newsletters, press releases, social media, and campaigns. Supported leadership communications and crisis responses. Helped in creating and planning an engaging conference agenda.

Wrote in-depth analytical pieces, conducted interviews with politicians and industry leaders, generated off-diary news stories, fact-checked and edited stories on renewable energy. Managed an editorial team and vendor partners for a monthly renewable energy publication.

Developed compelling content to demonstrate DLF's CSR impact. Drafted newsletters, e newsletters, eupdates, brochures, content for posters/banners, press releases, flyers, wrote articles/op eds for magazines, newspapers, etc.

Developed each issue's editorial, finalized specific stories, angles and sources. Assigned articles and gave deadlines, word counts, etc. Coordinated work of reporters, photographers and graphic designers.

Developed and implemented a strong, successful media strategy and thus ensured wide media coverage of the campaign against coal in Mahan forests. Successfully collaborated with Times Now to telecast live the launch of the campaign from Mahan forests.

Planned, coordinated executed the company's corporate communications functions. Developed content for both traditional and non-traditional marketing communications campaigns. Led media activities for Zimmer Mobile Learning Centre.

Revamped website content and design. Collected success stories from the field. Created a partner organisations forum on the website where partners' profiles and discussions on a variety of development issues were posted regularly.

Fulfilled multifaceted duties including reporting, news/feature writing, researching, fact-checking, headline writing besides supervising a team of reporters/sub editors/photographers. Worked on InDesign.

Specialized in covering news in health, environment and local city politics. Broke many stories on maternal and child health, education, environment, local government, etc. Conducted many exclusive interviews.

Worked on the internal communications strategy for the environmental master plan for the State.

Developed all communication materials for the launch of the Make Trade Fair campaign in India. Collected case studies from the field and produced films on farmer suicides. Worked with the media, celebrities/goodwill ambassadors and members of parliament to highlight the issues Oxfam supports and campaigns for.

Produced the programme Kuchh Dil Se anchored by Smriti Irani. Worked at the news desk and on various news programmes with senior journalists.

Worked as a sub editor, handling editing and writing tasks.

Worked with Karan Thapar as Researcher on BBC's Hard Talk India. Work involved extensive research on various politicians/celebrities, organised shoots, post production, etc.

Job involved rewriting, editing, writing stories, reporting, making pages on Quark Xpress, deciding on the layout, selecting news items in order of importance, etc.

Worked at the News Desk, collected all components of the news bulletin, drafted the rundown for each bulletin, wrote scripts and packages, and configured them to deliver a consistent show. Produced half hour English news bulletins and three minute headlines.

Pursued undergraduate studies at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi.

Completed A.I.S.S.E. in the Science stream.