Shekhar Gupta

Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Print

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Shekhar Gupta

Biography

Shekhar is one of India’s best-known political journalists and currently serves as the Founder and Editor-in-Chief at The Print, an exciting news media start-up. He is a prolific columnist with the highly influential column National Interest, which is translated into several languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati and Marathi. He is also a columnist for the Business Standard and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturday. He is a senior prime-time anchor at NDTV. Prior to this, he was the Editor-In-Chief at The Indian Express, under his leadership, The Indian Express won the Vienna-based International Press Institute's Award for Outstanding Journalism in the Public Interest thrice.