1. NEIL JOSHI
A/2, LITTLE MASTER, CROSS LANE NO 3, SWAMI SAMARTH NAGAR, ANDHERI WEST,
MUMBAI – 400053; [M] 09324605246/09819800273; [E] neil.stories@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE
Afternoon Despatch & Courier July, 2008 – present date
Mumbai
Sports Editor
 Heading the editorial and decision-making process of the Sports Department
 Monitoring, designing and conduction of page making
 As a correspondent here earlier, I have covered various sporting events including
the Cricket World Cup, Tests, ODIs and T20 cricket series, the IPL, the
Commonwealth Youth Games, Pune in 2008, Hockey, Athletics, Tennis,
Badminton and Formula One among other sports and general events.
Press Trust of India Nov 2007-March 2008
Reporter
 Press Trust of India is the country’s leading news agency. Working with them
has helped me learn not only to go after stories with urgency, but also in
distinguishing worthy news from the clutter
 The organisation gave me the opportunity to do a host of stories in Sports,
General and Defence
The Free Press Journal June 2007-October 2008
News reporter
 Covered beats such as aviation, infrastructure and power, the Brihanmumbai
Municipal Corporation and crime
 Was also the Legal Correspondent for the newspaper covering the Bombay High
Court, the Sessions Court and the Metropolitan Magistrate Courts
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
 Freelancing with the All India Radio as a Sports Presenter for a Special Weekly
Programme ‘Sports Magazine’on MW 1044 Mhz.
 Freelanced for the All India Football Federation Website (www.the-aiff.com) for
the I League.
 Freelanced for an international magazine ‘Beautiful People’
 Visiting faculty and External Examiner for the University of Mumbai [Under-graduate
course]. Lecturer for journalism at the degree college level at Jai Hind
College and HR College [Both Churchgate], Kirti College [Dadar], Ruia College
[Matunga], RD National College [Bandra], Hinduja College [Charni Road], KJ
Somaiya College [Vidhya Vihar], Lala Lajpatrai [Mahalaxmi], Khar Education
Society [Khar], Wilson College and Bunts Sangha [Kurla].
 Regular contributor to the Just Jewellery – jewellery online news portal since
2010 [now defunct]. Was the co-founder of the website.

2. EDUCATION
n Masters in Marketing Management from Prin. LN Welingkar Institute in
Marketing [Results Awaited] 2011-14
n Master in Arts Political Science 2008
n Bachelor of Mass Media, with specialization in Journalism 2006
(Kishanchand Chellaram College, Churchagte) securing distinction.
Note: All the above courses are affiliated with the University of Mumbai.
INTERESTS/HOBBIES
Cooking, gardending, stamps collection
COMPUTER SKILLS
Ms Office, Adobe Photoshop and Quark Express.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of birth : 27/10/1984
Nationality : Indian
Languages known : English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Mother Tongue: English