Sreenivasan Jain

Sreenivasan Jain is an Indian journalist who worked for NDTV from 1995 - Jan 2023. He is currently an adjunct faculty at O.P. Jindal Global University[1] He was one of the prominent faces of NDTV, and during his three-decade career with the news television, served as the anchor of NDTV’s popular programmes, like Reality Check, Truth vs Hype etc. He was also the channel's Group Editor. He was NDTV's Mumbai bureau chief from 2003 to 2008. He was also briefly Managing Editor of NDTV's business channel, Profit. He is also an Op-ed columnist for the Business Standard newspaper.[2] An Op-ed column in The Hoot, an independent South Asian media watchdog, praised Jain's television coverage of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.[3] Jain is the grandson of M A Sreenivasan, a minister in the Princely State of Mysore, and the son of Devaki Jain and Lakshmi Chand Jain.[4] On January 28, 2023, Sreenivasan Jain announced that he is quitting the channel after a nearly three-decade-long career.[5][6]

Sreenivasan Jain
Born21 November
India
Alma materRishi Valley School
Hindu College, University Of Delhi
University of Sussex
OccupationJournalist
Years active1995–present
Parent(s)Lakshmi Chand Jain
Devaki Jain

Awards
  • Jain won the 2006 Best Anchor News/Current Affairs award instituted by the Indian Television Academy.[7]
  • In September 2014, Jain won the Ramnath Goenka award for 'Journalist of the Year'.[8]
  • In April 2015, Jain won the 'Journalist of the Year' award at the RedInk journalism awards, given by the Press Club, Mumbai.[9]

References
  1. "Sreenivasan Jain faculty". Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  2. "Sreenivasan Jain columns on Business-Standard". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  3. "Good rioters and bad rioters". Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  4. "A home that housed four generations of genius". Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  5. "Sreenivasan Jain quits NDTV after nearly three-decade-long career". The News Minute. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  6. "Journalist Sreenivasan Jain Quits NDTV After Adani Group's Takeover". The Wire. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  7. "The Indian Television Academy Awards 2006". Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  8. "Ramnath Goenka Awards: The Storytellers". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  9. "NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain has won the `Journalist of the Year' award, for his series 'Truth versus Hype'". Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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