News Broadcasting
CNBC appoints new correspondents in Singapore, Hong Kong
MUMBAI: Business and financial news channel CNBC Asia has added two new correspondents to its news team. Betty Liu joins the network’s Hong Kong bureau while Sri Jegarajah will be based in CNBC’s regional headquarters in Singapore.
Liu has been appointed CNBC’s Hong Kong correspondent. She will cover the network’s morning programmes Asia Squawk Box and Asia Market Watch, while Jane Ong continues her role as the Hong Kong correspondent for the evening programmes Asia Market Wrap and CNBC Tonight. Liu was the Atlanta bureau chief for Financial Times, where she made frequent television appearances on CNN. She has also been a business correspondent with PBS in the US, and Taiwan bureau chief with Dow Jones Newswires.
Jegarajah will be one of CNBC’s Singapore-based correspondents for the network’s evening programmes Asia Market Wrap and CNBC Tonight. He joins CNBC from Bloomberg, where he filed oil and energy market reports for wires, print, television and radio services. Prior to Bloomberg, Sri was with Dow Jones Newswires, in London as commodities reporter and subsequently as a Singapore-based energy reporter. He was a regular commentator on CNBC during his time at Dow Jones.
CNBC Asia senior VP progamming Cynthia Owens said, “Betty and Sri are terrific additions to our award-winning on-air team. Both of them have extensive experience in business reporting and are at home in Asia. It is a reflection of CNBC’s position as the world leader in business news that we can attract top talent like Betty and Sri.”
News Broadcasting
Rajesh Sundaram joins NDTV Profit as senior editor, assignment
The 32-year newsroom veteran has launched channels on three continents and covered everything from 9/11 to South African television
MUMBAI: NDTV Profit has bolstered its newsroom with a hire who has done rather more than most. Rajesh Sundaram, a journalist with over three decades of editorial, managerial and consultative experience across India and international markets, joins as senior editor, assignment, tasked with sharpening the network’s newsgathering and real-time response.
Sundaram’s career reads like a tour of Indian media’s most formative moments. He began at Businessworld in 1994, moved to Zee News as bureau chief across Mumbai and Chennai, then joined NDTV in 2002 as part of its political bureau during a particularly febrile period in Indian politics. A stint as India correspondent for Al Jazeera International followed, where he covered key geopolitical developments and got his first serious taste of the global newsroom.
What sets Sundaram apart, however, is his serial channel-launching habit. At NewsX, he helped get the operation off the ground. At Headlines Today, part of the India Today Group, he served as editor. At News Nation, he helped launch the Hindi news channel and its digital ecosystem. He then crossed continents to lead the launch of ANN7 in South Africa as editor-in-chief, overseeing both television and digital. Back in India, he launched Tamil news channels News7 Tamil and Cauvery News, and later served as principal consultant for the launch of Marathi channel Lokshahi. Most recently, he helped build and lead the Press Trust of India’s video service and content studio, before stints consulting for Business Today and The Himalayan Times.
Rahul Kanwal, chief executive and editor-in-chief of NDTV, left little doubt about what Sundaram is expected to deliver. “The assignment desk is where a newsroom’s intent becomes action,” he said. “Rajesh brings a rare combination of field experience and leadership in building news operations at scale.”
Sundaram has reported from across India and the world, covering elections, civil conflicts, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 US presidential election.
At NDTV Profit, he will lead the assignment desk, driving editorial coordination and real-time response across markets and breaking developments. For a business news network sharpening its focus on speed and multi-platform delivery, it has hired a man who has built newsrooms from scratch on three continents. The assignment desk is in good hands.
