Rahul Roushan
Rahul Roushan | |
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| Born | 29 January 1980 Patna, Bihar, India |
| Pen name | Pagal Patrakaar[1] |
| Occupation | Blogger, businessman |
| Language | Hindi, English |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Patna University IIM Ahmedabad |
| Genre | Current affairs, Satire |
| Website | |
| rahulroushan | |
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Rahul Roushan (born 29 January 1980) is an Indian blogger and businessman. Roushan founded Faking News, a satirical news website, and is the CEO of OpIndia, a right-wing news portal that has been found publishing fake news on multiple occasions.[2] Originally from Patna, he is now based in Mumbai[3] and is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication and IIM-A.[4][5]
He served as the editor of Faking News until 2016[6] and previously also worked as chief strategy officer for Swarajya, a conservative Indian magazine.[7]
In March 2020, he published his autobiography titled "Sanghi Who Never Went To A Shakha."[8] The book received positive reception from many including Kangana Ranaut, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and Madhav Sharma.[9]
Life[edit]
Roushan comes from the city of Patna in Bihar.[3] He graduated in Mathematics from Patna University in year 2001, and then received a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in New Delhi in 2002.[citation needed] Roushan is also an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management granted in 2007.[4] Roushan is settled in Mumbai, where he lives with his wife, with who he has a daughter.[10]
Career[edit]
After graduating from IIMC, Roushan worked as a copy editor, bulletin producer, and news anchor with the Hindi news channel Sahara Samay for two and a half years.[1] He left journalism to pursue higher studies at IIM Ahmedabad, wherein he turned an entrepreneur.
While still being a student, he had launched crickstock.com, a virtual gaming website, ahead of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.[4] Crickstock.com was later sold off to a US based online gaming company and Roushan chose a freelancing career as management consultant; one of his projects included helping the Bihar government set up a management institute in Patna, in 2008.[11]
In 2008, inspired by the American news satire website The Onion, Roushan started Faking News[5][3] as a blog and wrote under the pseudonym Pagal Patrakaar (crazy journalist).[1] In 2009, the blog was turned into a full-fledged website.[5] In 2013, Faking News was acquired by Firstpost, a news portal of the Network 18 group, for an undisclosed amount.[6] Roushan went on to serve as its editor till September 2016, when he switched to Swarajya as Chief Strategy Officer.[citation needed]
In November 2018, he became the CEO of a spin-off digital media startup – Aadhyaasi Media & Content Services, which took over the production of OpIndia from Swarajya.[12] Ideologically oriented towards right-wing populism,[20] OpIndia claims to be a fact-checking website,[13] but has published fake news on multiple occasions.[2] In May 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an affiliate of the Poynter Institute, rejected Roushan's application to have OpIndia certified as a fact checker.[27]
Influence[edit]
Priyanka Sharma wrote in the Business Standard that several authors followed Roushan's lead to start similar ventures as Faking News, including the founders of newsthatmattersnot.com and The UnReal Times.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Sharma, Priyanka (4 February 2012). "A spoof story". Business Standard. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 [21][22][23][24][25][26]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Borgohain, Ananya (6 July 2014). "Making Faking News". The Pioneer. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Rahul Roushan: Executive Profile & Biography – Bloomberg". Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Bhandaram, Vishnupriya (25 March 2013). "What a fake!". The Hindu. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 HT Correspondent (31 May 2013). "Firstpost buys current affairs satire portal FakingNews.com". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ BBC Trending (17 December 2016). "False rumours and fake news cloud India's currency plan". BBC. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
- ↑ "Story of the 'Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha'".
- ↑ "'Sanghi who never went to a Shakha' by Rahul Roushan winning accolades from all quarters". NewsroomPost. 2021-03-13. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
- ↑ "About me". Rahul Roushan. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
- ↑ "CIMP gears up to start classes from July". 8 April 2008.
- ↑ "About me". Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Bhushan/TheWire, Sandeep (2017-01-26). "Arnab's Republic hints at mainstreaming right-wing opinion as a business". Business Standard India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Ananth, Venkat (2019-05-07). "Can fact-checking emerge as big and viable business?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Mihindukulasuriya, Regina (2019-05-08). "BJP supporters have a secret weapon in their online poll campaign — satire". ThePrint. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Ghosh, Labonita (17 June 2018). "The troll who turned". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Manish, Sai (8 April 2018). "Busting fake news: Who funds whom?". Rediff. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Chaturvedi, Swati (2016). I Am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP's Digital Army. Juggernaut Books. pp. 11, 23. ISBN 9789386228093. Search this book on
- ↑ "Tables Turn on Twitter's Hindutva Warriors, and It's the BJP Doing the Strong-Arming". The Wire. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
- ↑ "Search results for OpIndia". Alt News. Archived from the original on 16 March 2020. Retrieved 16 March 2020. Unknown parameter
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|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Chakrabarti, Santanu; Stengel, Lucile; Solanki, Sapna (20 November 2018). "Duty, Identity, Credibility: 'Fake News' and the ordinary citizen in India" (PDF). BBC. pp. 87–88. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Khuhro, Zarrar (9 July 2018). "Digital death". Dawn. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- ↑ Kumar, Basant (3 January 2020). "Fake news, lies, Muslim bashing, and Ravish Kumar: Inside OpIndia's harrowing world". Newslaundry. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ↑ Alam, Mahtab (15 May 2020). "Bihar: Case Against Rightwing Sites For Fake Claims of Communal Angle in Minor's Murder". The Wire. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
- ↑ Kaur, Kanchan (11 February 2019). "Conclusions and recommendations on the application by OpIndia.com". International Fact-Checking Network. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019. Unknown parameter
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