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Journalist and News presenter
Amrita Cheema is an Indian journalist. She has been working since 1999 as a news presenter with the German international TV broadcaster Deutsche Welle-TV. From 2005 to 2008, she spent some years with the Australian broadcaster SBS Television.[1][2][3]
Cheema is a Rhodes Scholar with a D.Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1988. She went to Britain after obtaining a first class B.A. and M.A. degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.[4] She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland in Bonn before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service in Cologne.[3]
Career
Cheema was an editor and anchor of Star News Sunday in Delhi. This 60-minute programme with investigative reports and live interviews had the highest television rating points for a news and current affairs show in the country.[3] She also anchored prime time Star News English bulletins, Newshour and election specials.[5] In 1994, she was part of a team which launched India's first news and current affairs television channel Television International (TVI), under the Business India TV umbrella.[3]
Cheema moved to Berlin in 1998 to become one of the hosts of the German international broadcasters Deutsche Welle English language edition of the Journal,[5] their television news program. She also produced People and Politics and European Journal.[3] In 2000, she worked on the DW-TV's documentary The Truth Is in No Hurry.
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Cheema had lived in Europe for more than sixteen years.[3]
In 2005, Cheema moved to Sydney, Australia and began working for the public multicultural television network SBS Television on World News Australia,[5] where she co-hosted the 6.30 pm bulletin with Anton Enus on weekdays.[2][3]
In 2008, Cheema resigned from SBS, and read her final bulletin on 6 June 2008.[6] She since has returned to Deutsche Welle in Germany.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Amrita Cheema. World Economic Forum.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Another news presenter farewells SBS(19 May 2008).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Newsmaker. India Today.
- ↑ St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India: HISTORY. ase.tufts.edu.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Cite error: Invalid
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