Danish Afroz

Award-winning Urdu Journalist and Content Moderator with 8+ years of experience across digital journalism, content moderation, voice-over, and anchoring. Adept in content governance, moderation workflows, UI/UX collaboration, and news broadcasting. Strong command over Urdu and Hindi language.

Content Moderator at Tech Mahindra (2024-10 – 2025-10)

• Enhanced and moderated content in Urdu and Hindi.
• Proofread, edited, and evaluated final copy to verify content aligned with established guidelines.
• Approved, reviewed and edited all content flowing to Gemini, approving pieces of content.
• Developed and curated content for Gemini and rating prompts.

Output Head at The Live TV (2022-12 – 2024-10)

• Joined as Output Head at The Live Tv, managing all the contents surfacing on the channel.
• Led the team, keeping eye upon the news to be published, shortlisting news, titles, thumbnails, coordinating with team members.
• Collaborated nd followed up with the anchors and the co-workers, followed up to make news creative and presentable, managed the output and handled the channel.
• Led the editorial QA and enhancing Hindi linguistic accuracy.

Team Lead and Reporter at New Emerging World of Journalism (2021-03 – 2022-12)

• Joined as a reporter, promoted to Team Leader.
• Managed the team of Newj Urdu and Hindi followed by the roles of Writer, Content Moderator and Analyser.
• Managed PIE application as UI/UA moderator.
• Developed content for the application.
• Advised and led process improvement team with deliberation, leadership, and strategic planning.
• Designed UI for PIE application (non-coding) and worked on UI templates.
• Supported multimedia teams by editing video scripts and captions to maintain consistency across formats.

Senior Content Editor and Anchor at ETV Bharat (2018-09 – 2021-02)

• Produced Scripting for CMS and web portal.
• Rundown for 5 minutes bulletins and recorded Voice over for news and special stories for CMS web portal.
• Reported Anchoring for daily updates, special election polls, and Q&A sessions with prestigious guests.

Anchor at HNews (2017-09 – 2018-05)

• Engaged as Assistant Producer, Reporter, Voice over artist, run down manager and scripting.
• Conducted special interview show named Vishesh Charcha with prestigious political leaders.

Copy Editor at News18 (2016-07 – 2017-08)

• Edited content for News18 Urdu, scripted and voiced special reports.
• Created segments for "Delhi Metro" and "Khaas Baat", and ran daily issue-based shows.

Bachelors in Arts in Urdu Hons – Veer Kunwar Singh University (2019-07 – 2022-11)

12th Grade in Arts – Mirza Galib College (2012-06 – 2013-04)i