Prominent journalist Md. Rezaul Karim (Lotus) has been appointed as the Editor of the Daily Sun.
He has replaced Enamul Hoque Chowdhury, who has been made Editor-in-Chief of the daily, reports Daily Sun.
On January 1, 2020, Rezaul Karim Lotus joined the Daily Sun as its City and Diplomatic Editor.
Later in October 2021, he was promoted to the post of Executive Editor of the country’s leading English daily.
In his illustrated career, he also served as Chief Reporter, Diplomatic and Special Correspondent of The Daily Star.
Popularly known as Lotus, he is the incumbent President of Diplomatic Correspondents Association Bangladesh (DCAB). He was also elected DCAB President in 2012, 2017, 2018 and 2022.
Lotus has brought with him a wealth of reporting experience during his three decades’ career at The Daily Star and United News of Bangladesh (UNB) where he held different positions.
He began his career in journalism as Dhaka University Correspondent at the UNB in March 1989 when he was sophomore at the Dhaka University.
In his long career, Lotus participated in various high-level professional training, conference, leadership and study programmes, UN and other international summits in different countries, including Australia, the USA, the UK, EU, India, China, Japan and Korea.
He participated in the Australian Professional Opportunity (APO) programme managed by Australia Awards, International Leadership Visitor Programme (ILVP) in the USA, European Union Leadership Programme (EULP in Brussels, “Next Generation Leaders Visit to South Korea” of Korea Foundation, Study on Decentralization and Local Government in Switzerland and Sweden, Diplomatic Correspondents Conference in India, media conference on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Maritime Silk Road project in China.
Besides, he also visited the USA at the invitation of US Department of State to participate in reporting tour on “Amplifying the Indo-Pacific Strategy, and Rotary Foundation programme.”
He interviewed a number of heads of states and governments and high officials from different countries.
Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul
