Sky News appoints Anushka Asthana as Political Correspondent
LONDON, Thursday 16th May 2013: Sky News has appointed Anushka Asthana as Political Correspondent.
Anushka began her journalism career at the Observer where she remained for eight years. Her final role there was as the newspaper's Policy Editor, working from Westminster writing about politics and people. While there she covered the 2010 General Election and the formation of the Coalition. Before that she covered a series of roles for the paper including Education Correspondent, Deputy News Editor and Health Reporter - and was also shortlisted for the young journalist of the year category in the British Journalism Awards.
In 2006 Anushka won the Laurence Stern Fellowship, spending a number of months working on the Washington Post where she covered the mid-term elections, travelled on Air Force 1 with the President and interviewed Barack Obama, then a high-flying senator.
Esme Wren, Head of Politics for Sky News, commented: “This is an exciting move for Sky News. Anushka comes with a wealth of experience and a proven record for breaking news. She will be a huge addition to our dynamic Westminster team.”
Anushka added: “I'm extremely excited about joining Sky News - which I feel is at the cutting edge of British media. It is a channel watched in every other newsroom as it competes to be the first to break stories. This is a great opportunity for me as a journalist to move into a new field, broadening my skills, and aiming to break exclusives in a very different way and across all their platforms.”
Anushka takes up her new role late summer.
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