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Ritu Kapur
Ritu Kapur (center) at an Amnesty International Event, New Delhi, Joesy Joesph (left).jpg
Kapur (centre) at an Amnesty International event in New Delhi
Nationality Indian
Alma mater
Known for
Board member of
Spouse Raghav Bahl

Ritu Kapur is an Indian media entrepreneur. [1] She is the CEO of Quintillion Media, which jointly owns BloombergQuint with Bloomberg L.P. [1] She is the Co-founder, Managing Director, and CEO of Quint Digital Limited, the parent company of The Quint , [2] [3] a web-based digital news site and was one of the founding members of Network18 in 1992. [4]

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Ritu Kapur is a board member at Reuters Institute Of Journalism, Oxford University. [5] [6] She is also an advisory board member at the British Council for their Future News Worldwide partnership program and a board member of the World Editor's Forum. [7] [8] [9] In 2018, she was ranked the 49th most powerful woman on the Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in India. [10]

Background

Ritu Kapur is an alumna of St Stephen's College. She secured her Masters in Film and TV production from A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia. [11]

Her husband is Raghav Bahl, an Indian businessman and co-founder of Network18 and Quint Digital Limited. [12] Ritu Kapur and Raghav Bahl have two children. [4]

Career

Ritu Kapur is credited with creating "The India Show", India's first home-grown show on a satellite channel, Star Plus. In 1995 she started directing and writing screenplays for television show, Bhanwar, recreating landmark cases in Indian legal history. Apart from being one of the founding members in Network18, she worked on various projects such as Real Heroes. [4]

Ritu pioneered Citizen Journalism on Indian Television in 2008 when she launched "The CJ show" on CNN IBN, a show which has won various awards. In 2011, Ritu launched History TV18 (a joint venture with A+E Networks) as the Head of Programming. At History TV18, she conducted The Greatest Indian. Currently, Ritu Kapur is the Co-founder, Managing Director, and CEO of The Quint . [13] [14]

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  2. ↑ "About Us". The Quint. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Ritu Kapur | WAN-IFRA Events". events.wan-ifra.org. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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  8. ↑ "WEF Board Members - WAN-IFRA". www.wan-ifra.org. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  9. ↑ "'Half a billion smartphones will be the tipping point' | Press Institute of India". www.pressinstitute.in. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  10. ↑ ""MOST POWERFUL WOMEN"". www.fortuneindia.com. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
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  12. ↑ "Notice Number".
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  14. ↑ "It's Like TV in the 90s, No Templates: Ritu Kapur on Digital Media". The Quint. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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