Ritu Kapur is an

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media entrepreneur. She is the CEO of Quintillion Media, which jointly owns BloombergQuint with

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She is the co-founder of ''

The Quint ''The Quint'' is an English and Hindi language Indian general news and opinion website founded by Raghav Bahl and Ritu Kapur after their exit from Network18. The publication's journalists have won three Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism A ...

'', a web-based digital news site and was one of the founding members of

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in 1992. Ritu Kapur is a board member at Reuters Institute Of Journalism,

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. She is also an advisory board member at the

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for their Future News Worldwide partnership program and a board member of the World Editor's Forum. In 2018, she was ranked the 49th most powerful woman on the Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in India.

Background

Ritu Kapur is an alumna of St Stephen's College. She secured her Masters in Film and TV production from

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. Her husband is

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, an Indian businessman and co-founder of

and Quintillion Media. Ritu Kapur and Raghav Bahl have two children.

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, ''

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,'' 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. Ritu pioneered

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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

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(a joint venture with

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) as the Head of Programming. At History TV18, she conducted

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. Currently Ritu Kapur is the CEO of ''

''.

References

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