Sreenivasan Jain is an Indian journalist who worked for

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from 1995 - Jan 2023. He is currently an adjunct faculty at

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He was one of the prominent faces of NDTV, and during his three-decade career with the news television, served as the anchor of NDTV’s popular programmes, like ''Reality Check,'' '' Truth vs Hype'' etc. He was also the channel's Group Editor. He was NDTV's Mumbai bureau chief from 2003 to 2008. He was also briefly

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of NDTV's business channel, Profit. He is also an Op-ed columnist for the Business Standard newspaper. An Op-ed column in The Hoot, an independent South Asian media watchdog, praised Jain's television coverage of the

2013 Muzaffarnagar riots The clashes between the Hindu and Muslim communities in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India in August–September 2013, resulted in at least 62 deaths including 42 Muslims and 20 Hindus and injured 93 and left more than 50,000 people ...

. Jain is the grandson of M A Sreenivasan, a minister in the Princely State of Mysore, and the son of

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and

Lakshmi Chand Jain Lakshmi Chand Jain (1925–2010) was a political activist and writer. Later, he served at various times as a member of the Planning Commission, as Indian High commissioner to South Africa, as a member of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) an ...

. On January 28, 2023, Sreenivasan Jain announced that he is quitting the channel after a nearly three-decade-long career.

Awards

*Jain won the 2006 Best Anchor News/Current Affairs award instituted by the Indian Television Academy. *In September 2014, Jain won the

Ramnath Goenka award The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) are one of the awards in India in the field of journalism. Named after Ramnath Goenka, the awards have been held annually since 2006, with the 12th edition being held in 2017. The awa ...

for 'Journalist of the Year'. *In April 2015, Jain won the 'Journalist of the Year' award at the RedInk journalism awards, given by the Press Club, Mumbai.

References

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