Ajit Anjum is a veteran Indian journalist having more than three decades of experience in the field of journalism. Over the course of his career, he has worked with several leading news media houses in senior roles including India Today, Aaj Tak, and News 24. In the desire to work independently, Ajit started a YouTube channel by his name in March 2020. He uploads content related to news and ongoing topics with extensive ground reporting on his YouTube channel.
Ajit Anjum was born on Monday 7 April 1969 (age 52 years; as of 2021) in Begusarai district, Bihar, India. His zodiac sign is Aries. Owing to frequent transfers of his father, Ajit took his schooling in different cities. One of the schools that he studied at was Town High School, Hajipur. He passed class 12 from Darbhanga’s and thereafter graduated in History honours from Langat Singh College, Muzaffarpur, affiliated to Bihar University.
His father, Ramsagar Prasad Singh, was a district court judge in Bihar. Ramsagar Prasad died because of a heart attack on 20 March 2011.
Ajit Anjum is married to Geetashree, who is also a journalist by profession. Ajit had met Geeta Shree while
They together have a daughter named Jiya.
Ajit developed an interest in reading and writing news while studying in college. His first piece of writing that got published in a newspaper was a letter to the editor that he wrote to the editor of Patliputra Times. It was in 1987. He was in college during that time. To get a better understanding of journalism, he started reading various popular journals and magazines of that time, such as ‘Hindustan Dainik’ ‘Nav Bharat Times’. Simultaneously, he used to write ground reports about the adjacent cities and send them to regional and national newspapers in Delhi. Gradually, newspapers started publishing his writings. This strengthened his determination to pursue journalism as a professional career. During his early journalism days, he also worked as a freelancer at Patna, where he also started writing for Dharmyug, Saptahik Hindustan,
Dinmaan, and Ravivar. His first job was in 1989 as a news writer at a regional newspaper, Chothi Duniya. At that time, one did not require a journalism degree to get recruited as a journalist. He did ground reporting for Chothi Duniya during the 1989 Indian general election. In 1990, he moved to Delhi after getting recruited by Amar Ujala. He worked for Amar Ujala as a reporter from 1990 to 1994.
A picture from the early 90s showing young Ajit Anjum on his Hero Honda bike on the way to do ground reporting in Nainital
Thereafter, in the same year, he joined BAG films as a freelancer. His job included making Investigative documentaries on different subjects for Doordarshan.
After working as a freelancer for three months, he joined BAG films as a permanent employee in 1995. He got Rs. 10,000 as his salary when he joined the job. He joined Aaj Tak news channel in 2002, worked there for a year, and then rejoined BAG films in 2001. He came back to BAG Films because at that time there were many programs being planned for Star News. He conceptualised several shows on Star News including Pol Khol (started in 2004) Red Alert, and Sansani. In 2007, BAG Films launched News 24 news channel. Ajit Anjum was appointed as its managing editor.
In 2014, he left News 24 and acquired the post of managing director at India TV.
Then he left India TV in 2017 and started doing freelance journalism. Then, Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd (ABCPL) launched its Hindi news channel TV9 Bharatvarsh in March 2019 and appointed Ajit Anjum as its consulting editor.
However, he left TV9 Bharatvarsh in September 2019 owing to some differences with the channel. One of them (as revealed by Ajit himself) was his program on TV9 Bharatvarsh ‘Debate With Ajit Anjum’ was reduced from an hour to half an hour. Ajit told in an interview that the management team of TV9 Bharatvarsh was uncomfortable about him being critical about the current BJP regime in the nation and the way he rigorously questioned people from the ruling party. He also ended his career on Television news channels with his resignation from TV9 Bharatvarsh. Here is a tweet that he posted after the resignation.
In another tweet, he wrote, “Now I am free. From all the restrictions and limitations. My anger was not allowing it to withstand all this.”
As revealed by Ajit Anjum, the restraints that were put on him while he worked in the mainstream media houses were compromising with his journalism ethics, so he decided to continue his journalism career on YouTube. He started a YouTube news channel by his own name, ‘Ajit Anjum,’ in March 2020.
As per an interview with Kumar Shyam in February 2021, Anjum said that considering the current state of Indian media, he would never like to return to any television news channel. He added that working independently on YouTube has given him immense satisfaction, and he considers it as the golden period of his journalism career.
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