Mumbai: India Today Group-owned Business Today magazine is all set for a digital revamp. The Group also announced the appointment of Anirban Roy, formerly with The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, as Business Today’s online editor.
Roy commands more than 20 years of experience in multi-media, multi-platform, and multi-language newsrooms across international and Indian media houses. Roy was the founding digital editor and news editor for The Wall Street Journal India, where he and his colleagues won the SOPA Award for Excellence in Multimedia News Presentation. Prior to that, he was India digital editor at Reuters. He has also been the Group editor for social platforms at Network18.
“Business Today has always led the discourse on business journalism in India and now with its move towards a digital-first, multimedia-led coverage, it is poised to lead the way for storytelling in the digital age. I look forward to showcasing stories about India's new economy and how it is being shaped by the ongoing tech revolution,” Roy said on his new role at the ITG.
In another key announcement, the Group named leading financial journalist and anchor Aabha Bakaya as the co-host of its upcoming Business Today TV show.
A career business journalist, Bakaya has more than 15 years of rich experience in financial news television at leading channels in the country. She was a consultant anchor at ET NOW, hosting its flagship “The Market” and “Closing Trades” shows. Bakaya was a founding team member at NDTV Profit and ET NOW. In a previous role, she anchored stock market opening and closing shows at Bloomberg TV.
“I look forward to being a part of the India Today family. I am thrilled to join the team at Business Today and bring my knowledge along with the expertise to cover the markets and decode important business news daily for the audience,” Bakaya said on her new role at the ITG.
Ever since its inception in 1992, it has set new benchmarks in business reporting. Today, Business Today commands the highest readership among all business magazines in India.
Last month, the India Today Group announced the appointment of Udayan Mukherjee, the country’s biggest and undisputed icon in business journalism, as its Global Business Editor and host of a daily business show premiering on India Today air from August 1.
Earlier in July, the network named one of India’s most prominent magazine editors, Sourav Majumdar, as the new Editor of the Business Today Magazine, and Siddharth Zarabi, an award-winning journalist and former editor of Bloomberg TV, as the Managing Editor of Business Today TV.
