Rajdeep Sardesai

Some Lesser Known Facts About Rajdeep Sardesai

• Sardesai is currently a consulting editor at the India Today group and hosts Headlines Today. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7, and IBN-Lokmat—which he resigned in July 2014.

• Rajdeep is the son of Dilip Sardesai, a former Indian Test Cricketer.

• Initially, Rajdeep worked with 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 hosted popular shows like ‘The Big Fight’ at NDTV.

• He quit NDTV later to start his own company, Global Broadcast News (GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahl’s TV18.

• Rajdeep was awarded Padma Shri by Govt. of India in 2008.

• Rajdeep carried off The International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for 2006.

• He received The Asian Television award for talk show presentation and has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television Academy for eight of the last nine years.

• He has been the President of the Editors Guild of India and was also chosen as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the world economic forum.