Mitali Mukherjee

Mitali Mukherjee (born 6 December 1979) is an Indian news anchor, financial journalist, writer and TEDx speaker. She was news editor and key anchor of CNBC TV18. She was previously with The TV Today group, BBC World and Doordarshan. She has also consulted with Mint, the World Bank and The Indian Express. Presently, she is working with The Wire. Early life Mitali was born in Ambala, Haryana. She's an army kid who finished school at The Army Public School in New Delhi. She then graduated in Political Science Honours from Delhi University and was awarded a gold medal. Post-graduation, Mitali went to Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) under the Ministry of I&B where she specialised in TV and Broadcast Journalism. She won the Star TV Scholarship and was awarded a gold medal. More recently she has also got a post graduate qualification in working with children with learning disabilities from SNDT University Mumbai where she got an A+. Career Mitali began her career as Associate Producer, Miditech in 2001 where she shot on location, scripted and edited several documentaries for BBC World including Commando, a docu-series that covered real – time the most intensive training module run by the Indian Army for its officers. In 2002, she joined the nation's news broadcast channel Doordarshan, where she anchored the evening prime-time news. In 2003, she joined TV Today's flagship English news channel Headlines Today where she anchored the primetime evening bulletin and also reported on ground from strife hit areas like Jammu & Kashmir.