Teacher, Trainer and Consultant

• He is a teacher, trainer, and a consultant/advisor on the media and on India’s political economy. He has advised various organisations, including corporate bodies (Indian, foreign, and multinational), government agencies (including India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting) and civil society organisations.
• For six years, between April 2001 and March 2007, he served as director and executive head of the School of Convergence (SoC), an educational institution, promoted by Cyber Media Foundation Limited, a joint venture between the Cyber Media India group and Kaleidoscope Entertainment. The institution taught aspiring – and working – media professionals about the working of all the media (print, internet, radio, television, and cinema).  During his tenure, the SoC conducted part-time, undergraduate certificate courses in media studies at St. Stephen’s College and other educational institutions affiliated to the University of Delhi such as Gargi College, Sri Venkateswara College and Hindu College. The SoC also conducted a range of short courses, seminars, workshops and executive development programmes on different aspects of the media and communications for various organisations, corporate and non-corporate, government and non-government, local and multinational. The school also conceptualised and executed various media projects that included films/videos, radio programmes and print publications.   
• He was responsible for conceiving and teaching a course entitled “Strategies for New Media Industries” (together with Sushil Khanna) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, during September-October 2005. This was the first time any of the IIMs conducted a course related to the media. The course was repeated in January 2007. Seven years later, for two successive years, 2014 and 2015, he conducted the same course in the institute.  
• He developed and designed a course entitled “Media & Society: The Politics, Economics, Ethics and Technologies of Mass Communications” comprising lectures, workshops and presentations, which he has been teaching at the IIM Ahmedabad, since December 2004. He has delivered lectures, participated in seminars and conducted a workshop on “What is Unique About India’s Experience With Television” for officers of the Indian Administrative Service at the same institute in January 2008.
• He was a consultant at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore in 2008-09. He made presentations and wrote a paper on Indian politics after the 2009 elections.
• He has been associated with several projects of United Nations organisations, including the International Labour Organization (ILO). He moderated two panel discussions on the Global Jobs Crisis at the International Labour Conference at Geneva in June 2009 that was part of the International Labour Organization summit.
• He acted as moderator for the Asia-Pacific Editors’ Roundtable on Hunger that was organised by the Regional Centre in Colombo of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Panos Institute in Sri Lanka in February 2009.
• He lent editorial support to CUTS International for the preparation of two advocacy documents: one on “Mekong-Ganga Cooperation” that explored the economic and trade relationships between India, Vietnam, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Thailand and the other on the “India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Initiative” that explored the economic, trade and technical relationship among these countries. He made presentations on behalf of CUTS at Bangkok, Thailand (October 2005) and at Pretoria, South Africa (June 2006).
• He made a half-hour presentation on the economies of the Asia Pacific region for IDC (Asia Pacific) Limited, Singapore, (formerly International Data Corporation) at an international conference at Phuket, Thailand (October 2006).
• He made a presentation at a workshop with international participants on “the roles and responsibilities of media in conflict reporting” that was organised in Bangkok, Thailand, in September-October 2009, by the German non-government organisation, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 
• He conducted a three-day personality development workshop on “Effective Communication” (including writing skills and public speaking skills) for the students of the department of industrial management and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in September 2007. In April 2007, he had delivered a guest lecture on “Media Marketing: Challenges of the Internet Era” for students of the same institute. 
• He has conducted personality development workshops for “Fabindia” on behalf of the International Management Institute, New Delhi and at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. He has delivered lectures for groups of teachers during training sessions conducted at the Administrative Staff Colleges at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia and the University of Delhi.
• He acted as a consultant to the UNDP providing editorial support during the preparation of the report “Voices of the Least Developed Countries in Asia and the Pacific: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals Through A Global Partnership” during February-June 2005 and the direction/production of a 12-minute documentary film based on the report.
• He conducted a day-long workshop for students at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, on “Media Ethics and Regulation” in October 2005 – this was the first time such a workshop was conducted at the FTII.
• He acted as a consultant to the Press Institute of India by writing articles and providing editorial support for the PII’s publication, Vidura, and participating in workshops and seminars organised by the institute at New Delhi, Lucknow, Ahmedabad, and Bangalore.
• He served on interview panels awarding scholarships and fellowships to journalists, including the Chevening Fellowship in the United Kingdom and the Inlaks Scholarship. He served as a member of the panel of judges for the Young Journalist Award awarded by CNN, an AOL Time Warner Company based in the United States. He served on interview panels for the Department for International Development (Government of the United Kingdom), All India Radio, Indraprastha College, among others, to recruit employees or enroll students.
• He has regularly acted as master of ceremonies and moderator for various conferences, symposia, seminars conducted by various organisations, including IDC (India) Limited.
• He had participated in conferences and seminars outside India, including at “Highway Africa” held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (2012), Hofstra University, Long Island, New York (2013); New York University (2013), University of California at Berkeley (2016), King’s College, London (2017), School of Oriental and African Studies, London (2017), University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US (2022) and at Heidelberg University in Germany (2017).
• He has been a speaker/lecturer/moderator or participant in other seminars/workshops organised in different locations in India, including at the following institutes/organisations: Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy for Administration, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand; Reserve Bank of India Staff Training Centre, Asian College of Journalism (both in Chennai, Tamil Nadu); the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Delhi and Kozhikode, the Indian Institute of Public Administration, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ambedkar University, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Indian Institute of Mass Communication, St. Stephen’s College, Indraprastha College, Lady Shri Ram College, Hindu College, Jesus & Mary College, Miranda House, Maitreyee College, Gargi College, Khalsa College, Kirori Mal College, Indraprastha College, Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Ramanujam College, Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, Satyavati College, Zakir Hussain Delhi College, Maharaja Agrasen College, Wigan & Leigh, Delhi School of Communications, Centre for Policy Research, Times School of Journalism, 20:20 Media, Institute of Management Technology, Jindal Global University, Apeejay Institute of Mass Communications Ashoka University, Bennett University (all in Delhi or the National Capital Region); the Mudra Institute of Communications & Advertising (MICA), Ahmedabad, Central University of Gujarat, Ahmedabad University, Karnavati University, Gandhinagar (all in Gujarat); the Central University of Pune, the Symbiosis Institute of Mass Communication, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, the Gokale Institute of Politics and Economics, Maharashtra Institute of Technology–World Peace University, Mahindra International School (all in Pune); Viswa Bharati University (Santiniketan), University of Burdwan, University of Kalyani, Jadavpur University, International Management Institute – Kolkata, Heritage Academy (all in Kolkata and West Bengal); the Central University of Kerala, Kasargod, Kerala Media Academy, the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, University of Kerala (all in Kerala); Osmania University, University of Hyderabad, Council for Social Development, Gandhi School of Humanties and Social Sciences, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (all in Hyderabad); the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, St. Joseph’s College, Jain University, Azim Premji University, MYRA School of Business, Mysore, St. Joseph’s College of Law (all in Bengaluru and Karnataka); the Birla Institute of Science and Technology, Pilani, International Centre for Environmental Audit and Sustainable Development, Jaipur (all in Rajasthan); the Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, Aligarh Muslim University, the Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, Zee News (all in Uttar Pradesh); the Amity School of Mass Communications, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; and several national law schools/colleges/universities at New Delhi, Bangalore, Cuttack, Kolkata, Jodhpur, Bhopal and Hyderabad.

Paranjoy has conducted raining and consultancy assignments in private and government entities including the following: Confederation of Indian Industry, Zee News, Computer Sciences Corporation, 20:20 Media, Genesis Burson-Marsteller Public Relations, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, BP Solar, Young Presidents’ Organization, Kolkata and Chennai, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Chennai, Department for International Development (Government of the United Kingdom), the Consumer Unity and Trust Society (CUTS), IDC India, Hewlett Packard India, Intel Corporation, Sun Microsystems India, PepsiCo India, Merck, General Dynamics, Sogeti (Netherlands), Samsung Electronics India and others.

He was president of the Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP), an independent, not-for-profit organisation based in Delhi. He was a member of the managing committee of the Media Foundation of India that used to run the now-archived website, the hoot.org, and has written a series of articles for the website on media ownership in India. He was a member of the board of directors of Greenpeace India. He is a member of the governing council of Common Cause, a civil society organisation engaged in public interest litigation, among other activities related to redressing public grievances.