Senior journalist Nikhil Kumar has joined TIME journal as Govt Editor. Mr Kumar shall be overseeing TIME’s AI, Local weather and Well being groups.
“Collectively, our AI, Local weather, and Well being journalists have been amongst TIME’s most modern and acknowledged. They’ve launched our new TIME100 communities, creating journalism that speaks to the decision-makers in these verticals and the people who comply with them,” TIME stated in an announcement.
“Nikhil brings expertise in worldwide and enterprise journalism, which he’ll use to make it possible for our AI, Local weather, and Well being protection continues to enchantment to international audiences and people main the companies that form them. He’ll supervise Senior Editors Mandy Oaklander, Kyla Mandel, and Dayana Sarkisova, together with their reporters, and collaborate throughout all our departments to encourage our most bold journalism,” it added.
Nikhil Kumar was not too long ago with The Messenger as its deputy international editor and earlier than that, he labored at Grid. He was previously CNN’s bureau chief in New Delhi, overseeing the community’s protection of India and the broader area, in addition to reporting on-air for main tales.
Beforehand, he additionally labored with TIME as its South Asia bureau chief and, earlier than that, as a senior editor engaged on worldwide protection. He has additionally labored as an editor and international correspondent for the Impartial and the Night Commonplace.
The journal additionally introduced that Lori Fradkin, who joined TIME in 2018, was being promoted to Govt Editor.
“A proficient newsroom chief, Lori will oversee Senior Editor of Concepts AJ Hess and their workforce of editors, in addition to Editor-at-Giant Belinda Luscombe, Senior Correspondent Sean Gregory, and Correspondent Eliana Dockterman,” the assertion learn.
She joined TIME in New York following 5 years at Cosmopolitan, with earlier roles at The Huffington Put up, AOL, and New York journal.