Times of India Indian Americans are influential players in US media March 18, 2012 WASHINGTON: With two of them governors, four billionaires and over a score sitting in _high places_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/High-Places) in government, Indian Americans not only keep making news but have also emerged as major players in American media.
Take Indian-born Aparism Bobby Ghosh, for instance, who was last week named by _Time magazine_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Time-Magazine) as 'Editor-at-Large'. In naming Ghosh, Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel, called him "one of Time's greatest assets and this past year was one of his best yet." Then there is _Fareed Zakaria_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Fareed-Zakaria) , who too was introduced as Editor-at-Large of Time Magazine in October 2010 after spending 10 years overseeing all of Newsweek's editions abroad. Called "the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation" by _Esquire_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Esquire) Magazine, Zakaria hosts what has been dibbed one of the most intelligent shows on American TV, 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' on CNN every Sunday. Equally ubiquitous is Sanjay Gupta, the multiple Emmy-award winning chief medical correspondent for CNN. A practicing neurosurgeon, Gupta has reported from earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Japan, earthquake devastated _Haiti_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Haiti) and covered live the unprecedented flooding in Pakistan. Vinnie Malhotra, a former programme development executive at _ESPN_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/ESPN) and long-time ABC News producer, has just joined CNN as senior vice president for development and acquisitions. Last month, Raju Narisetti, credited with creating Mint, the successful business daily out of Delhi, returned to the _Wall Street Journal_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Wall-Street-Journal) , where he had spent 23 years earlier, as Managing Editor of its Digital Network. Nisid Hajari, Managing Editor of _Newsweek_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Newsweek) is busy writing "Midnight's Furies," a dramatic history of the Partition of India and _Pakistan_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Pakistan) , told through the characters of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Churchill, and Mountbatten. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is _the National_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-National) Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. His first book "Imperial Life in the Emerald City:Inside Iraq's Green Zone" published in 2006 won the 2007 _Samuel Johnson_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Samuel-Johnson) Prize and was a finalist for the 2006 _National Book Awards_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/National-Book-Awards) for non-fiction. ESPN's _sports_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sports) anchor Kevin Negandhi is the first anchor of Indian-American descent to be on a national sports network in American Television history and _Ali Velshi_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Ali-Velshi) , son of Murad Velshi, the first Canadian of Indian origin elected to the legislative assembly of Ontario, serves as CNN's chief business correspondent. Other names include Davan Maharaj, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times; _Stephanie Mehta_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Stephanie-Mehta) , _Fortune magazine_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/FORTUNE-Magazine) Executive Editor overseeing technology, and Nikhil Deogun, Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief Business News, _CNBC_ (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/CNBC) , the most-watched business TV network in the world. Peter Bhatia, editor of The Oregonian, one of America's top regional newspapers, is the first South Asian to run a major US daily. Hundreds of lesser known Indian Americans are among the producers, reporters, copy editors and production assistants, bringing Americans their daily news -showing how far Indian-American have come in the media world where only a few of them commanded bylines in the 1990s. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
