Nationality Indian Role News anchor Name Rajdeep Sardesai | Years active 1988 – present | |
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Full Name Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai Education St. Xavier's CollegeUniversity College, Oxford Occupation Current: Consulting editor at India Today group. Former News Anchor & Editor-in-chief of IBN18 NetworkResigned in July,2014 Books 2014: The Election that Changed India Parents Nandini Sardesai, Dilip Sardesai Awards ITA Award for Best Anchor - News/Current Affairs show Children Ishan Sardesai, Tarini Sardesai Similar People Sagarika Ghose, Barkha Dutt, Arnab Goswami, Rahul Kanwal, Dilip Sardesai Profiles | ||
Rajdeep Sardesai, India Today On His Journey to Journalism at UpGrad Talks
Rajdeep Sardesai Exposes Arnab Goswami's Lie On Being Attacked During Gujarat Riots | Newsroom
Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor and author. Sardesai is currently a consulting editor at the India Today group, and hosts India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat—which he resigned in July 2014. He is married to journalist and author Sagarika Ghose.
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- Rajdeep Sardesai India Today On His Journey to Journalism at UpGrad Talks
- Rajdeep Sardesai Exposes Arnab Goswamis Lie On Being Attacked During Gujarat Riots Newsroom
- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- Books
- References
Early life
Rajdeep Sardesai's father, Dilip Sardesai, was a former Indian test cricketer. He completed his schooling at Campion School in Mumbai, did two years of ISC from The Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai, and completed a bachelor's course in Economics from St. Xavier's College. He then went to University College, Oxford, getting the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Civil Law. While at Oxford he made six first-class cricket appearances for Oxford University and one for a combined Oxford and Cambridge side against the 1987 Pakistani touring team. He was awarded a cricket Blue.
Career
Rajdeep Sardesai has worked with The Times of India for six years and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition. He entered television journalism in 1994 as Political Editor of New Delhi Television (NDTV). He was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels. He hosted popular shows like 'The Big Fight' at NDTV.
He quit NDTV on 17 April 2005 to start his own company, Global Broadcast News (GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahl's TV18. The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition (in English) of CNBC called CNBC-TV18, the Hindi consumer channel, CNBC Awaaz and an international channel, SAW. The new channel with Sardesai as the Editor-in-Chief has been named CNN-IBN. It went on air on 17 December 2005. Channel 7 has also come under this umbrella after Sardesai's company bought a 46 percent stake in the channel. Channel 7 was later renamed IBN7.
On 29 May 2014, Reliance Industries Ltd announced it would be acquiring control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, the parent of CNN-IBN, IBN7 and CNBC-TV18. The board of RIL approved funding of up to ₹40 billion (US$620 million) to Independent Media Trust (IMT), of which RIL is the sole beneficiary, for acquisition of control in Network 18 and its subsidiaries. Subsequently, on 01 July 2014,Rajdeep,editor-in-chief of CNN IBN along with the entire founding team – editorial and managerial- resigned from the Network18 group.