Sharmin Rauma is currently playing the role of the Senior Journalist Team Manager at the BBC, She is also a famous New & Current Affairs TV show in Bangladesh. She joined the BBC in March 2013 as a freelance News Presenter. In 2014, she covered World Cup Football for BBC Bangla Radio. Later that year, she joined the BBC Bangla team in Bangladesh and became a presenter of the country’s popular TV talk show—BBC Bangladesh Sanglap which focuses on contemporary issues in the participation of studio guests and audience. She also played the role of producer, presenter and reporter for BBC Bengali Radio and online. In 2015, she joined BBC World Service as a TV producer. She carried out various responsibilities such as, planning, scripting, producing packages, presenting programs, and interviewing high-profile personalities including Home Minister, Information Minister, Advisors to PM, diplomats, the World Bank CEO, and many more.

Prior to joining the BBC, Rauma had already been a well-known News Presenter of ATN BANGLA, a prominent TV media of the country where she worked from 2003 to 2009 and 2011 to 2014. She started her career with News presentation in 2002 as well as a host for the compiled weekly news programme “GOTO SHAAT DIN” on CHANNEL i. Rauma had also been the host of ‘Shubho Shondhya’, an audience feedback programme on CHANNEL i. She also hosted Musical Entertainment Show ‘Music Moment’ on another TV Channel of the country, BANGLA VISION. She left the country in the end of 2009 and moved to London to work as a News Producer & Presenter of BANGLA TV UK, a TV media based in London. There she worked for daily News as well as a popular programme ‘Law & Order: Your Rights’, a TV show to help the Bengali community in Britain to know their legal rights. After coming back to Bangladesh from the UK in 2011, she started working for a national English daily ‘The Independent’ as a sub-editor where she carried out responsibilities at central news desk. Later, she started working as a freelance News Presenter for the BBC’s Bengali section Radio in Bangladesh in 2013. Being a media personality, Rauma has been appearing as an MC for various corporate events & concerts regularly since 2001.

Team Leader/Manager: Being a Senior Journalist Team Manager at the BBC, she leads the TV Journalist team of the BBC in Bangladesh which involves planning, decision making, content production supervising, editorial monitoring, etc. Series Producer & Presenter of high profile show: playing a very critical role here as the series producer and presenter of BBC’s News and Current Affairs TV show ‘BBC Probaho’. carrying out various responsibilities such as, planning, scripting, producing packages, presenting programme, interviewing high profile personalities like politicians, ministers, law enforcing agencies, diplomats, foreign delegates, etc.

News Anchor & Programme presenter: Well-known News Presenter of Channel i and ATN BANGLA, prominent TV medias of Bangladesh. She was a presenter of News & Current Affairs programme compiling week’s important events and news “GOTO SHAAT DIN”, audience feedback show ‘Shubho Shondhya’, on CHANNEL i. She also hosted Musical Entertainment Show ‘Music Moment’ on another TV Channel of the country, BANGLA VISION.

Played the role of News Producer & Presenter in London-based TV channel: At BANGLA TV UK, a TV media based in London, she worked for daily News as well as a popular programme ‘Law & Order: Your Rights’, a TV show to help the Bengali community in Britain to know their legal rights.

Worked as a sub-editor for English daily: After coming back to Bangladesh from the UK in 2011, she started working for a national English daily ‘The Independent’ as a sub-editor where she carried out responsibilities at central news desk. Later, she started working as a freelance News Presenter for the BBC’s Radio in Bangladesh in 2013. Being a media personality, Rauma has been appearing as a Master of Ceremony for various corporate events & concerts regularly since 2001.

Journalistic skills: Research, content production, scripting, video editing, reporting, presenting

Sharmin Rauma is a skilled broadcast journalist with over 20 years of experience in commercial television with first-hand knowledge as a presenter. She is trained in script writing, reporting and program production of TV, Radio and online journalism as well as print media. She has been directly involved in collecting DATA, research, organizing, planning, scripting, producing packages, presenting programme on regular/special assignment basis for several Radio and Television Programmes namely:

• News & Current Affairs radio programme ‘Provati’ (BBC production)
• News & Current Affairs radio programme ‘Prottusha’ (BBC production)
• News & Current Affairs radio programme ‘Probaho’ (BBC production)
• News & Current Affairs radio programme ‘Porikroma’ (BBC production)
• News & Current Affairs show ‘BBC Probaho’ (BBC production)
• News & Current Affairs show ‘Bangladesh #trending’ (BBC Production)
• News & Current Affairs show ‘BBC Sanglap’ (BBC production)
• News & Current Affairs show ‘Goto Shaatdin’ (Channel i, Bangladesh)
• Audience feedback show ‘Shubho Shondha’ (Channel i, Bangladesh)
• Community legal rights show ‘Law & Order: Your Rights’ (Bangla TV,UK)
• Entertainment Eid Special for Bengali community in UK (Bangla TV,UK)
• Music industry updates show ‘Weekly Music Moments’ (Bangla Vision, Bangladesh)
• Musical talent hunt show ‘Song Factory’ (RTV, Bangladesh)

Sharmin Rauma has expertise in producing audio, video and text contents. She has produced numerous TV and online packages, online text content, radio packages  for BBC Bangla.

She has good script writing skills as well as experience as a Sub Editor for a daily newspaper. She wrote scripts for many corporate live events for multinational and local business houses. In her present job role as the series producer for the BBC’s News and Current Affairs show, she works with other broadcast journalists to write package and programme scripts on a regular basis.

She has 12 years’ experience of being presenter for Hourly News Bulletin that involves handling live phone-in with interviewees, correspondents on the spot, emergency situation, etc. Sharmin Rauma is the first News presenter of ATN BANGLA, a popular TV media of Bangladesh to go with LIVE studio production.

Technical skill: Sharmin Rauma has sound knowledge of video editing on FINAL CUT PRO. She has experience of editing Video contents on her own.

A Musician: Apart from being a journo, Rauma is also a versatile singer, who has received training in both Indian classical and western classical music. She completed a five-year course in Nazrul Sangeet and Classical music at Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA). Rauma also took lessons at the Dhaka International Music School, where she learnt to play the piano alongside western classical vocal music. Rauma’s first album, titled Swapner Diganta Chhuye, under the label of G-Series, was released in 2006. Renowned singer-composers Manam Ahmed, Ayub Bachchu, Fuad Naser Babu, SI Tutul and Bappa Mazumder composed songs for the album. Her second solo album Swapnajatra was released in 2009. The album, which was composed prominent composer Manam Ahmed, especially the title song, was well received by the audience. She worked in multiple mixed albums with other Bangladeshi singers too. Rauma has also lent her voice for playback music in almost 50 films. She is well known as a Bangladeshi singer performing at many TV programmes and Live events including Bangladesh Television (BTV), the state-owned Television network in Bangladesh and other prominent TV channels of the country. She also took part in various concerts in home and abroad including India, UK and Australia.

Other work Experiences: Sharmin Rauma is a former School Teacher (worked in Oxford International School) with experience of teaching English up to GCE O & A Level.

She also worked as a sales executive for 5 years from 2004 to 2009 at Citycell, a mobile phone and data service operator company in Bangladesh.