Amrita Cheema

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Amrita Cheema
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Amrita Cheema at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in 2011.
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Education University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist and News presenter

Amrita Cheema is an Indian journalist. She has been working since 1999 as a news presenter with the German international TV broadcaster Deutsche Welle-TV. From 2005 to 2008, she spent some years with the Australian broadcaster SBS Television. [2] [3] [4]

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Cheema is a Rhodes Scholar with a D.Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1988. She went to Britain after obtaining a first class B.A. and M.A. degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. [5] She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland in Bonn before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service in Cologne. [4]

Career

Cheema was an editor and anchor of Star News Sunday in Delhi. This 60-minute programme with investigative reports and live interviews had the highest television rating points for a news and current affairs show in the country. [4] She also anchored prime time Star News English bulletins, Newshour and election specials. [1] In 1994, she was part of a team which launched India's first news and current affairs television channel Television International (TVI), under the Business India TV umbrella. [4]

Cheema moved to Berlin in 1998 to become one of the hosts of the German international broadcasters Deutsche Welle English language edition of the Journal, [1] their television news program. She also produced People and Politics and European Journal. [4] In 2000, she worked on the DW-TV's documentary The Truth Is in No Hurry.

As a journalist, she has interviewed world leaders,[ vague ] dissidents, and newsmakers.[ citation needed ]

Cheema had lived in Europe for more than sixteen years. [4]

In 2005, Cheema moved to Sydney, Australia and began working for the public multicultural television network SBS Television on World News Australia , [1] where she co-hosted the 6.30 pm bulletin with Anton Enus on weekdays. [3] [4]

In 2008, Cheema resigned from SBS, and read her final bulletin on 6 June 2008. [6] She since has returned to Deutsche Welle in Germany. [3] [4]

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References

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