Sreenivasan Jain

"Sreenivasan Jain is an award-winning broadcaster and journalist. He began his career in 1995 as a reporter at New Delhi Television, a 24-hours news and current affair broadcaster. Between 2003-2011, he served as NDTV’s station chief in Mumbai. When he resigned from NDTV in 2023, he was the network’s Group Editor. In a career spanning three decades, he has reported on wars, elections, insurgencies, majoritarianism, corruption scandals and democratic struggles. His notable broadcast work includes the weekly ground reportage/investigative show Truth vs Hype, and Reality Check, a daily show debunking official myths and government propaganda. He has written columns and reported pieces for Business Standard, DNA, Outlook, The Week magazine and Open magazine, and is the co-author of Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods, which interrogates Hindutva conspiracy theories. Jain has been awarded Journalist of the Year at the Ramnath Goenka Awards in 2014, and at the Red Ink Awards in 2015. He is a multiple-time winner of the ENBA Awards and the News Television Awards. In 2007, he won the World Silver Medal at the New York Festivals for a report on agrarian distress in Maharashtra. He is based in New Delhi. "