News Broadcasting
Atika Shubert is CNN’s new Tokyo correspondent
MUMBAI: CNN has appointed Atika Shubert as a CNNs Tokyo correspondent.Shubert will be replacing Rebecca Mackinnon.
Her latest job portfolio include responsibility for the global news networks coverage of Japan Shubert joined CNN in 2000 and covered news from the Jakarta bureau. Prior to that, she was a correspondent for the Washington Post and the New Zealand Herald in Indonesia.
In association with the present Jakarta bureau head Maria Ressa, Shubert has also covered major news events in Indonesia, including the Bali bombing attack in 2002, the fall of Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid and the inauguration of the current President Megawati Sukarnoputri, East Timors transition to independence, the resurgence of the Free Aceh separatist movement, the religious conflict in Ambon, the fall of Indonesian former President Suharto as well as the student reform movement. She has also contributed reports from the Philippines and Singapore, says a company release.
Since she started reporting from Tokyo on attachment from Indonesia, in January 2004, Shubert has already covered several major news stories including the controversial deployment of Japans self defense forces to Iraq, the Japanese hostage case in Iraq, and the verdict of Shoko Asahara, the criminal mastermind behind the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo.
Shubert graduated with a bachelors degree in Economics from Tufts University in Boston and speaks Bahasa Indonesia.
News Broadcasting
News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
