Sunetra Choudhury is a journalist and anchor with

The Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...

. Her career started with The Indian Express in 1999 where she became the deputy chief reporter. In 2002, she began her TV career with Star News. Later, she moved to

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in 2003. Primarily located in

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, she is an alumnus of the

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. She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya. She has now joined The Hindustan Times as national editor for political affairs since May 2019.

Career

Choudhury started her career with the newspaper

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in 1999 and became the Deputy Chief Reporter responsible for their city sectio
Newsline
In 2002, she entered the electronic media industry when she joined

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as a reporter in Hindi. In 2003, she joined the

based

. On 30 April 2019, she announced that she has quit NDTV. On 1 May 2019, she joined

Hindustan Times ''Hindustan Times'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi. It is the flagship publication of HT Media, an entity controlled by the KK Birla family, and is owned by Shobhana Bhartia. It was founded by Sunder Singh Lyall ...

. She has been an anchor and reporter covering everything from natural disasters to crime, investigations and politics.

2010

In 2010
Hachette India
published a book authored by her, named ''Braking News''. The book is set two months before the general elections in May 2009. Choudhury, along with her colleague Naghma Sahar trundled the bylanes and boondocks of

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in search of the elusive Indian voter, and an insight into his mind. They went to villages without electricity in UP, to tribal settlements in Jharkhand, to Baripada in Odisha and Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu. They carried out a daily show called the Election Express, that spoke one on one with the locals and tried to understand the issues that determined their lives. Primarily being an election travelogue, she mentions:

2011

In 2011, she reported facing an awkward harassment situation from a senior politician. In 2015, she received the Red Ink Award for her story on how disabled children were being adopted by Indian families for the very first time.

2019

On 10 November 2019,

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published the book ''Black Warrant'', which was co-authored by Sunetra Chaudhary and Sunil Gupta.

Bibliography

*''Breaking News'' (2010) *''Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India's Most Famous'' (2017) *'' Black Warrant'' (2019)

References

External links

Sunetra Choudhury on Twitter
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