Ajit Anjum

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ajit Anjum

• Ajit Anjum has been reading multiple newspaper dailies since his student days.

• As a student, he wrote his views on social problems in letters to the editor of the Patliputra Times and other dailies.

• In 1987, he and his friends came in contact with a group of local journalists in Muzaffarpur. The interactions with those journalists were instrumental in his choosing journalism as a career.

  

• At the same time, Manikant Thakur, then editor of Patlipura Times, allowed him to work as a local correspondent of Minapur in Muzaffarpur.

• He also freelanced as a journalist for several newspapers and periodicals such as Dharmyug, Saptahik Hindustan, Janshakti, Dinmaan, and Ravivar.

• In an interview, Ajit Anjum mentioned that he used to get Rs 50 per article published in the newspaper Janshakti.

• In 1988, he joined a new newspaper publication, Uttarkaal, from Guwahati for a salary of Rs 800 but resigned after two months due to differences with the owner.

• At the same time, he rejected another offer from a newspaper in Guwahati, Purvanchal Prahari, and returned to Patna.

• He started writing articles on a freelance basis for Jansatta and Amar Ujala until he got a job in Chauthi Duniya in 1989.

• In 1990, when senior journalist Prabal Maitra joined Amar Ujala as the bureau chief, he offered Ajit Anjum a job as a reporter, which he continued for four years.

• In September 1994, he joined the media company B.A.G. Films and Media Ltd and was the director of the popular talk show Rubaru hosted by Rajeev Shukla.

  

• In 2002, he joined Aaj Tak as a senior producer for a year, and later, rejoined B.A.G. Films.

• Ajit Anjum played a big role in the success of the popular shows, Pol Khol (2004), Red Alert, and Sansani (2004), in Star News (now ABP News).

• He was instrumental in the launch of the television channel News 24 in 2007. There, he was the managing editor till 2014.

• In 2010, he led the ‘Rahat Lekar Bihar Chalo’ campaign, which provided a considerable amount of relief materials to the Bihar flood victims.

• From 2014 to 2017, he worked in India TV as a managing editor under Editor-in-chief, Rajat Sharma.

• In 2016, he was featured on the list of the 50 most powerful people of Bihar in a survey conducted by Fem magazine.

• In 2019, he joined TV9 Bharatvarsh as the consulting editor for five months.

• In 2020, he gave a TEDx speech on the topic ‘Stop Trying’ at Vidyapati Bhavan in Lodipur, Patna.

• Since 2020, he has been doing journalism work through his YouTube channel, which has 60.9 subscribers, as of July 2024.

  

• He is a food lover who likes cooking. He also posts pictures of different cuisines and dishes on his social media accounts.

  

• He likes gardening and often shares information about various flowers, plants, and trees on his YouTube Ajit Anjum Vlogs, which has 42.7K subscribers, as of July 2024.

• He often posts pictures of his pet dog (Lhasa Apso), Laila, on his social media accounts.