Sreenivasan Jain | |
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| Born | 21 November |
| Alma mater | Rishi Valley School Hindu College, Delhi University of Delhi University of Sussex |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Parent(s) | Lakshmi Chand Jain Devaki Jain |
Sreenivasan Jain is an Indian journalist who worked for NDTV from 1995 to January 2023. He is currently an adjunct faculty at O.P. Jindal Global University [1]
Jain is the grandson of M. A. Sreenivasan, a minister in the Princely State of Mysore, and the son of Devaki Jain and Lakshmi Chand Jain. [2]
He was a prominent face of NDTV, and during his three-decade career with the news network, served as the anchor of NDTV's popular programmes, such as Reality Check, Truth vs Hype . He was also the channel's Group Editor.[ citation needed ] He was NDTV's Mumbai bureau chief from 2003 to 2008. He was also briefly managing editor of NDTV's business channel, Profit. He is also an op-ed columnist for the Business Standard newspaper. [3] An op-ed column in The Hoot, an independent South Asian media watchdog, praised Jain's television coverage of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots. [4]
On 28 January 2023, Jain announced that he is quitting the channel after a nearly three-decade-long career. [5] [6]
Jain later joined Newslaundry , founded by Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan and Prashant Sareen and worked on various important projects such as NL Sena and Chunaav.[ citation needed ]