Sunetra Choudhury
{{Short description|TV journalist}}
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Sunetra Choudhury is a journalist and anchor with The Hindustan Times.{{cite web |url = http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/article270841.ece|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160508154250/http://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/article270841.ece|url-status = dead|archive-date = 8 May 2016|title=A bold red bus revolution}} Her career started with The Indian Express in 1999 where she became the deputy chief reporter. In 2002, she began her TV career with Star News. Later, she moved to NDTV in 2003.{{cite news|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Making-headlines/Article1-24826.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611073055/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Making-headlines/Article1-24826.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2010|title=Making headlines|accessdate=22 July 2011|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=30 October 2004}} Primarily located in New Delhi, she is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.{{cite web|title=Alumni|url=http://www.iimc.nic.in/alumini-pgdc-journ.html|publisher=Indian Institute of Mass Communication|access-date=22 July 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811105142/http://www.iimc.nic.in/alumini-pgdc-journ.html|archive-date=11 August 2011|df=}}
Career
Choudhury started her career with the newspaper The Indian Express in 1999 and became the Deputy Chief Reporter responsible for their city section [http://www.newsline.in/ Newsline]. In 2002, she entered the electronic media industry when she joined STAR News as a reporter in Hindi. In 2003, she joined the New Delhi based NDTV. On 30 April 2019, she announced that she has quit NDTV.{{cite web| title= Twitter Post by Sunetra Choudhury|url=https://twitter.com/sunetrac/status/1123248551566254080}} On 1 May 2019, she joined Hindustan Times.{{cite web| title= Twitter Post by Sunetra Choudhury | url = https://twitter.com/sunetrac/status/1123422667288145920}}{{cite web| title= NDTV's Sunetra Choudhury joins HT as National Political Editor by exchange4media Staff |url=https://www.exchange4media.com/media-tv-news/ndtvs-sunetra-choudhury-joins-ht-as-national-political-editor-96457.html}} She has been an anchor and reporter covering everything from natural disasters to crime, investigations and politics.{{cite web|title=Books by Sunetra Choudhury|url=http://www.hachetteindia.com/Author_Details.aspx?AuthorId=xpiFkdsxTlM=|publisher=Hachette|accessdate=22 July 2011}}
= 2010 =
In 2010, [http://www.hachetteindia.com/ Hachette India] published a book authored by her, named Braking News.{{cite web|title=Braking News|url=http://www.asianwindow.com/tag/sunetra-choudhury/|publisher=Asian Window|accessdate=22 July 2011}} The book is set two months before the general elections in May 2009. Choudhury, along with her colleague Naghma Sahar trundled the bylanes and boondocks of India in search of the elusive Indian voter, and an insight into his mind. They went to villages without electricity in UP, to tribal settlements in Jharkhand, to Baripada in Odisha and Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. They carried out a daily show called the Election Express, that spoke one on one with the locals and tried to understand the issues that determined their lives.
Primarily being an election travelogue, she mentions:{{cite web| title= Braking News by Sunetra Choudhury|url=http://www.hachetteindia.com/TitleDetails.aspx?titleId=1911|ISBN= 9789350090527}}
{{cquote|Part travelogue, part election special, part candid confessions of an inveterate TV cameratime junkie, this book is a delightfully frank account of one woman's understanding of why the country voted as it did; and how obvious it is, once out of the larger cities that development is the ultimate votegetter....}}
= 2011 =
In 2011, she reported facing an awkward harassment situation from a senior politician.{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column_pervy-politician-need-to-get-his-act-together_1564112|accessdate=22 July 2011|newspaper=DNA India|date=10 July 2011|title=Pervy Politician needs to get his act together}}
In 2015, she received the Red Ink Award for her story on how disabled children were being adopted by Indian families for the very first time.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
= 2019 =
On 10 November 2019, Roli Books published the book Black Warrant, which was co-authored by Sunetra Chaudhury and Sunil Gupta.{{cite web| title= 'Black Warrant': A compilation of unheard stories of Tihar by IANS|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/books/features/black-warrant-a-compilation-of-unheard-stories-of-tihar/articleshow/72272987.cms}}
Bibliography
- Breaking News (2010)
- Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India's Most Famous (2017)
- Black Warrant (2019)
References
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External links
- [https://twitter.com/sunetrac Sunetra Choudhury on Twitter]
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Category:Indian women television journalists
Category:Indian television journalists