Mr. Vidyadharan M. P.
Additional Director - Communications

Joined ORF
August 2004

Expertise
Journalism

Background
Mr. Vidyadharan did M.com from Rajasthan university and B.com from Kerala University. He has done Diploma in Journalism from International Institue of Journalism, Budapest. Also he is a diploma holder in Journalism from Edatatta Narayanan. He worked as Dy. Head of News for TV LIVE from January 2003 to July 2004. He worked with Lokmat Times as Chief of Bureau, with JAIN TV as Editor (News). From Oct’95 to Aug'99 he worked with TVI (BiTV) as a Senior Writer, News Coordinator and Input Editor. He also worked with PTI. From 1986 to 1988 he worked as a stringer with Sunday Observer (Delhi Edition). As a Sub Editor, Senior-sub-Editor and Staff Correspondent he worked in Patriot from 1982 to 1988.

Presently
In his present capacity as an Additional Director - Communications he is responsible for organizing structured media relations for ORF, write press notes and any other required external or internal communication, Assist with publicity for ORF activities and also develop and expand the feature service.

E-mail ID: vidyadharan@orfonline.org