About

Ashish R. Pareek didn’t inherit a path into national media. There was no media degree, no safety net, and no industry godfather opening doors. His foothold in broadcast journalism was fought for, earned through late nights, self-taught discipline, and an outright refusal to accept the limitations of his circumstances.

While pursuing a rigorous civil engineering degree at SJB Institute of Technology, his focus was already locked onto the newsroom. As soon as the college gates closed each evening, his second shift began. He headed straight to the studio floor of a regional outfit, YTV, putting in grueling overnight hours well past midnight. He didn’t just learn television, he reverse-engineered it. He taught himself the nuances of production, editing, anchoring, live-switching instincts, and narrative pacing while balancing coursework and textbooks.

When national newsrooms felt barricaded behind elite circles, Ashish didn’t wait for permission. Operating from his desk, he conceived, scripted, produced, and anchored his own independent broadcasts on a self-started YouTube channel. With zero budget and zero institutional backing, it served as an uncompromising proving ground – a rare editorial instinct at the time for a self-run YouTube channel.

The industry took notice. The consistency of his work forced doors open, landing him a direct interview and his first national breakthrough at TV9. There, on live breaking desks, an engineer’s structural logic merged with raw newsroom agility.

That unyielding drive carried him to the top of national television. At Times Network, he rose to become one of India’s youngest prime-time English anchors, fronting flagship broadcasts including Business @ 9 and India Tonight on ET Now, and commanding Mirror Prime, News@7, and South Speaks on Mirror Now.

Today, whether interrogating Union Ministers and Fortune 500 CEOs at the India Economic Conclave and Times Group Global Business Summit, or architecting multi-platform content strategies, the core of his work remains unchanged: an engineer’s sharp precision, a broadcaster’s live authority, and the enduring hunger of someone who earned every single second on air.