She has been the face of business news for over two decades and has been on top of her game day in and day out.
Despite the complexity of handling the countryโs most prominent business newsroom and large teams that beam out 24×7 programming, you will never see any sign of worry or stress when you meet her.
Our series Headline Makers, which profiles the thought leaders behind the countryโs most successful newsrooms, takes a closer look at the career journey of Shereen Bhan, Managing Editor of CNBC TV 18 and the person behind the celebrity news anchor and editor.
Here are some excerpts from our recent interview with her.
From producer to anchor and now being the face of the channel, what has the journey been like?
The journey has been very fulfilling and very interesting. It has been a great experience to watch the country change and the landscape the media operates in change.
The opportunities that have opened up and to chronicle all of them have been exciting and satisfying. When I started in the year 2000, right after I finished my master’s and while doing my master’s, I decided to get into broadcast journalism.
I was doing a program that Siddhartha Basu was producing, and Vir Sanghvi was anchoring, and my job was really to come out there and rally the audience. It was a current affairs program with a live audience, and I had to get the audience up to speak about what we were debating and tell them about the pros and cons and so on, and I enjoyed that process.
When they saw me do that, Vir and Siddhartha saidโhave you considered broadcast journalism?
If you haven’t, you have a flair for news; you have a sense and smell for the news.ย
And that was the start of the love affair with broadcast journalism with the news media, and I haven’t looked back since then. So much has changed, some for the good,…