She will report in to Editorial Director of India Today Group M J Akbar.
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | June 3, 2011
Kaveree Bamzai has been appointed as the new Editor of country’s No.1 English weekly magazine ‘India Today’. She will directly report in to Editorial Director of India Today Group M J Akbar.
M J Akbar confirmed the development with BestMediaInfo.com.
Prior to this, Kaveree Bamzai was Managing Editor of India Today and editor of the monthly magazine, India Today Woman. She has been writing extensively on cinema and television, while also doubling up as a film critic for the group’s English television news channel, Headlines Today.
A recipient of the Chevening Scholarship, she has worked in The Times of India and The Indian Express before this. A graduate of the Delhi School of Economics, she was given the MSA Rao Award for Academic Excellence. The author of one book, Bollywood Today, and two monographs in the Zubaan series on Women in Indian Film, Kaveree has over two decades of experience in journalism. She is a member of the CII National Committee for Women's Empowerment and a frequent speaker at media industry forums.
