Vikram Chandra (reporter)

Vikram Chandra (reporter)

Views: 6857

Category: Television

Vikram Chandra (reporter) Profile

  • Name:
  • Vikram Chandra (reporter)
  • Born:
  • January 7, 1967
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi
  • Mother:
  • Nandini Chandra

Vikram Chandra (reporter) Biography

Vikramaditya A. Chandra, popularly known as Vikram Chandra is the executive director and CEO of NDTV Group, top member of the NDTV Board. Now he is regarded as one of the top journalists of the country. His assignments on Kashmir Conflicts gave him that top status. Earlier he anchored Nine O'Clock News. Currently he anchors, Gadget Guru and The Big Fight. The big fight is one of India’s top rated talk and current affairs shows. Chandra has interviewed great personalities like King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch through this talk show.

 

Vikram Chandra was born on 7 January 1967 in New Delhi as the son of journalist of ‘The Hindustan Times’, Nandini Chandra. He studied at The Doon School where he has acted as an editor of school weekly also. He studied Bachelor's Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi and later at Oxford on an Inlaks Scholarship where he studied mass media at Stanford University. He started his career as a television journalist in the year 1991. He worked for TV news magazine called Newstrack. From 1994 onwards, he worked with New Delhi Television Limited where he worked on the prime time 9 O’Clock News and Gadget Guru. While he was a reporter, he was given assignment to war and conflict of Kashmir. In 1999, he reported on the Kargil War.

 

Chandra was appointed head of business channel, NDTV Profit before its launch. In 2007, he was named CEO of NDTV Networks. He added NDTV Convergence to his portfolio in 2009 and later became the CEO of NDTV Group. He has always been active with public interest media campaigns in India. "Save our Tigers" campaign to stop poaching needs special mention. Chandra's first work of fiction, the thriller ‘The Srinagar Conspiracy’, was published in 2000.

Published: N/A

Updated: January 25, 2014

Famous People: By Profession

 
 

Suggest Chandan Prabhakar profile update

captcha image (Can't see? refresh)