Neeraj Khemlani is a Singaporean-born American serving as the co-president of CBS News and CBS Television Stations.

Early life

Khemlani was born in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

with

India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...

n ancestry and was raised in

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the U ...

. He graduated with an undergraduate degree from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

in 1992 and a

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

in journalism from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

Career

Khemlani was an associate producer for

ABC News ABC News is the journalism, news division of the American broadcast network American Broadcasting Company, ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other progra ...

anchorman Peter Jennings and produced pieces with Robert Krulwich for the '' Nightline'' and Good Morning America. He joined CBS News in 1998 as a producer for the ''

60 Minutes ''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique st ...

'' television news magazine, where he was responsible for researching, reporting and writing stories with various CBS News correspondents. He was a senior executive at

Yahoo! News Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by a Yahoo! software engineer named Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associa ...

from 2006 to 2009. He joined the Hearst Corporation as a vice president in 2009. On April 15, 2021, Khemlani and Wendy McMahon were named as co-heads of CBS News and

CBS TV Stations CBS News and Stations (formerly CBS Television Stations) is a division of the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global that owns and operates a group of American television stations. , Paramount owns 28 stations, broken down as follows: ...

, succeeding Peter Dunn and Susan Zirinsky.

Personal life

He is married to Heather Cabot, an anchor and correspondent for ABC News. He is a term member of the

Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is a nonprofit organization that is independent and nonpartisan. CFR is based in New York Ci ...

in New York.

Awards

* 1995 DuPont Award for participation in ABC News’ coverage of the war in Bosnia * 2002 Edward R. Murrow award for best investigative reporting * 2003 Emmy nomination for Best Interview * 2004 Emmy nomination for business reporting * 2006 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khemlani, Neeraj American people of Sindhi descent Singaporean emigrants to the United States American people of Indian descent American people of Singaporean descent Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni American Hindus Cornell University alumni Living people Sindhi people Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of CBS News 60 Minutes producers

Early life

Career

Personal life

Awards

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