Anshul Tewari
Anshul Tewari is a journalist and entrepreneur. He is best known as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of YouthKiAwaaz.com, an online platform for young people to express themselves on issues of critical importance.
As per popular media, he started YouthKiAwaaz.com for news and views of the youth that found no place in the mainline media, and to break the stereotype of The INDIAN youth being apathetic.
Career
Tewari started YouthKiAwaaz.com, one of India's most read youth platforms with focus on Politics, Society, Environment and more issues - and to engage young people in ethical journalism and provide a platform for free expression of young voices - combining journalism with technology, in 2008. Over the next four years, Tewari scaled up YouthKiAwaaz.com to become one of India's most influential blogs.
In mid 2009, Tewari wrote articles on education related problems for The Indian Express. In 2010, he wrote several articles for India Real Time, a national blog of The Wall Street Journal India Online. He has been a regular writer at many popular journals and blogs.
Anshul has extensive experience in creating and scaling up participatory journalism and new media. Anshul is also an advocate of the usage of new media for social good and often gives talks AbOUT entrepreneurship in the media space.
He also writes a weekly youth column on CNN-IBN's website, IBNLive.com, under the name, Youth Ki Awaaz.
4 Billion Unheard and lack of freedom of expression
Tewari is also the initiator of the '4 Billion Unheard' project to talk about how nearly 4 billion people around the world do not get a fair chance to speak up, and lack access to tools to facilitate freedom of expression. He is one of India's foremost advocates of usage of Information and communication technology and new media to bridge this gap. This is also seen in one of the core missions of YouthKiAwaaz.com.
Awards
- ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition, 2012, by ITU, the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology.
- World Summit Youth Award, 2010, by ICNM and UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development.
- Champions of Social Transformation, 2011, by the Baha'i House of Worship, for efforts towards youth empowerment.