Suparna Singh was associated with New Delhi Television (
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...
). She joined NDTV in 1994 and was CEO of the company for 20 months until August 2019. She left the company in January 2023, a few weeks after Gautam Adani's group took over the company. She was with NDTV in various roles, executive and editorial.
Career
Suparna Singh is a
US citizen with
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 Television, Radio and Film from
Syracuse University
Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...
. She has worked at
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...
since 1994, rising to the post of Chief Executive Officer from December 2017 (soon after the death of CEO
K. V. L. Narayan Rao) to August 2019, when she stepped down from that role. Her role was controversial as
CEO
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...
as due to the fact that she is a US citizen which has been deemed incompatible with her position. She has been Head of Convergence at NDTV Convergence Limited since 13 January 2016. She also serves as Director of Strategy at NDTV Group. As the editorial and business head of
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...
Convergence, she is responsible for the content and expansion of NDTV's digital section, including its array of apps and its website, ndtv.com.
Suparna Singh created and headed NDTV's Metro Nation, the first English language, city-based channel in India on September 24, 2007.
In a long career in live television, she has also run NDTV's award-winning Promos department.
References
External links
* https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/ndtv-interim-ceo-suparna-singh-resigns-cbi-books-promoters-for-fbi-norms-violation-prannoy-roy-radhika-royradhika-roy/story/374516.html
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Living people
Journalists from Delhi
Indian broadcast news analysts
NDTV Group
People from New Delhi
Year of birth missing (living people)