Arnab Goswami

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Arnab Goswami

Arnab Goswami at WikiConference India 2011
Born Guwahati, Assam
Education University of Delhi
St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Occupation News Anchor and Editor in Chief of Times Now
Years active 1998 – present
Notable credit(s) The Newshour,
Frankly Speaking with Arnab

Arnab Goswami (Assamese: অৰ্ণব গোস্বামী; Hindi: अर्नाब गोस्वामी) is an Indian journalist who is the Editor in Chief and News anchor of the Indian news channel Times Now. He is an important contributor to the rise of the Times Now news channel since its launch in January 2006. His show The Newshour is aired at 9 pm (IST) with live news coverage. Arnab Goswami also hosts a special television program Frankly Speaking with Arnab, which has featured eminent personalities. Arnab is a recipient of a number of awards for his journalistic abilities and has also written a book named Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge.

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[edit] Biography

Arnab Goswami was born in Guwahati, Assam.[1][2] He comes from a family of eminent jurists. His paternal grandfather, Rajani Kanta Goswami, was a well known lawyer, a Congress leader and a freedom fighter.[3] His maternal grandfather, Gauri Sankar Bhattacharya, was a leader of the opposition in Assam for many years.[3] He was a freedom fighter, an intellectual writer and a recipient of the Asom Sahitya Sabha Award. As an army officer's son,[3] he attended schools in various cities.[2] He passed his 10th Standard board examinations from St Mary's School in Delhi Cantonment, his 12th Standard board exams from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jabalpur Cantonment. Arnab graduated in Sociology from Hindu College. He completed his Master's degree in Social Anthropology from Oxford University (St. Antony’s College, 1994) where he was a Felix Scholar. In 2000, he was a visiting fellow at the International Studies Department at Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) where he was a D C Pavate fellow.[2][4]

[edit] Career

Arnab Goswami speaking on the topic of Neutrality and the mordern era at Wiki Conference Mumbai, India 2011.

Arnab started his career with The Telegraph in Kolkatta.[2] Goswami began his career in TV news broadcast with NDTV 24x7 in 1995, where he anchored daily newscasts and set new standards in political reporting, where he did reporting for News Tonight a programme telecast on DD Metro.[5] In his time with NDTV, he did the first ever TV interview with Sonia Gandhi.[4] Later as the news editor, he was part of NDTV’s core team during the transition from programme producer to the 24-hour mode in 1998.[2] He hosted the popular Newshour show every weeknight. Newshour was seen as the agenda setting show on the channel and was the longest running news analysis shown on any channel (1998-2003).[4] As a Senior Editor with NDTV 24x7, he was responsible for the overall editorial content of the channel. He hosted one of the channel’s top rated news analysis show Newsnight,[6] which won an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards.

Arnab Goswami is currently Editor in Chief and News anchor of the Times Now news channel.[7][8] He is an important contributor in the rise of the Times Now news channel since its launch in January 2006. His show The Newshour is aired at 9 pm with live news coverage, which has featured notable personalities like Parvez Musharraf[9] and Rahul Bajaj. His notable accomplishments include stepping up with the 11 July 2006 Mumbai train bombings, interviewing over 200 politicians and analysts during the Trust Vote in October 2008 within a span of 26 hours of live anchoring and hosting the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks for over 65 hours,[7] in which the channel set new standards in live and direct field reporting. Since then, the channel has been widely acknowledged in India as well as globally for incisive and direct reporting. He also hosts a special programme Frankly Speaking with Arnab,[10] which has featured eminent personalities such as the late Benazir Bhutto, UK Prime Minister – Gordon Brown,[11] Afghanistan President – Hamid Karzai,[12] Buddhist Spiritual leader – Dalai Lama,[13] US Secretary of State – Hillary Clinton,[14] Sonia Gandhi[10] and a host of prominent Indian personalities from politics, sports, films, and the corporate world. He has also written a book named Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge.[2][4]

[edit] Awards

  1. Asian Television awards for Best Presenter or Anchor (Runner up)[5]
  2. Society Young Achievers award for excellence in the field of Media[10]
  3. Indian News Broadcasting Awards 2008 for Innovative Editor-in-Chief[4]
  4. Assamese of the Year Award by News Live[1]
  5. Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism(tv) for the year 2010 by the Indian Express Group.[15]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Award to Arnab Goswami". The Assam Tribune (Guwahati). January 18, 2010. http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jan1810/City3. Retrieved July 28, 2011. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Arnab Goswami". mediamughals.com. http://www.mediamughals.com/Common-News/2/Article/50/Arnab_Goswami.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  3. ^ a b c "The Soil Beckons". outlookindia.com. http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?239453. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  4. ^ a b c d e "Mr. Arnab Goswami Editor-in-Chief, Times Now". edvancelearning.com. http://www.edvancelearning.com/_pgjms_faculty/pgjms_11.html. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  5. ^ a b "NEW DELHI TELEVISION LIMITED". sebi.gov.in. http://www.sebi.gov.in/dp/ndtvdraft.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  6. ^ "Diversity in programming is crucial to NDTV". afaqs.com. http://www.afaqs.com/news/story.html?sid=6611&p=1. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  7. ^ a b "Bearing witness to events affects the course of conflict". rotary.org. http://www.rotary.org/en/mediaandnews/news/pages/conv09june19peace_sessions.aspx. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  8. ^ "DETAILED COVERAGE: TRANSCRIPT". onthemedia.org. http://www.onthemedia.org/2008/dec/05/detailed-coverage/transcript/. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  9. ^ "Excl: Musharraf says ISI did not hide Osama - 2". timesnow.tv. http://www.timesnow.tv/Excl-Musharraf-says-ISI-did-not-hide-Osama---1/videoshow/4372320.cms. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  10. ^ a b c "Arnab Goswami receives Society Young Achievers award". indiantelevision.com. http://www.indiantelevision.com/release/y2k7/jan/janrel49.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  11. ^ "UK stance on Pak elections ‘very clear’: Brown". dailytimes.com.pk. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C01%5C22%5Cstory_22-1-2008_pg7_1. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  12. ^ "Mullah Omar is I Pakistan, says Karzai". hvk.org. http://www.hvk.org/articles/0407/22.html. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  13. ^ "Thukchuk Lachungpa on Karmapa controversy-II". isikkim.com. http://isikkim.com/thukchuk-lachungpa-on-karmapa-controversy-ii/. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  14. ^ "Townterview Hosted by Arnab Goswami of Frankly Speaking on Times Now at St. Xavier College". state.gov. http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/july/126202.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 
  15. ^ "Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism". indianexpress.com. http://www.indianexpress.com/Picture-Gallery/851/7/5. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 

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