Anushka Asthana | |
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Born | March 1980 (age 44) Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England |
Education | Manchester High School for Girls |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, television presenter |
Known for | ITV News Co-presenter of Peston |
Title | Deputy Political Editor, ITV News |
Anushka Asthana (born March 1980) is a British journalist and television presenter. She is the deputy political editor of ITV News.
Asthana was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and raised in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. [1] Her parents, both doctors, moved to the United Kingdom from New Delhi, India in the 1970s. [2] Asthana attended the private school Manchester High School for Girls and studied economics at St John's College, Cambridge. [3]
Asthana joined The Observer as a general reporter in 2003 and spent several months at The Washington Post in 2006 on the Laurence Stern fellowship. [1] Later she was a political correspondent for The Times before beginning to work for Sky News in 2013 as a political correspondent. [4] [5]
In succession to Patrick Wintour, Asthana was appointed in December 2015 as the joint political editor of The Guardian , in a job share arrangement with Heather Stewart which began in early 2016. [6] [7]
From 23 April 2017, Asthana covered the maternity leave of Allegra Stratton as the co-presenter of Peston on Sunday . [8] Since September 2018, Asthana has co-presented ITV's Wednesday night flagship politics discussion programme Peston . That year she decided to leave her role as the joint political editor of The Guardian to present its new daily podcast Today in Focus, later being promoted to editor-at-large, replacing Gary Younge. [9] [10]
Asthana left The Guardian in 2021 to join ITV News as deputy political editor to Robert Peston. [11] [12] She was later linked to the vacant job of BBC political editor, although she ultimately remained with ITV. [13]
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