Vishnu Som is Senior Managing Editor and Senior Anchor at NDTV. An award-winning television journalist with thirty years of experience anchoring prime-time national news, he is widely networked with media leaders, influencers, business and corporate heads, and political visionaries and leaders across party lines.
Vishnu has conducted one-on-one interviews with international leaders such as President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, US Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Bill Gates, Tulsi Gabbard, and Henry Kissinger, among others. He has anchored global sessions of the World Economic Forum at Davos.
He has been closely involved in writing for, creating video content for, and disseminating news on NDTV's digital portal, ndtv.com, and understands the critical role the internet plays in modern-day news proliferation. He is able to assess and gauge the multiplier effect of new media, and the responsibility that content creators and aggregators must practise.
He has been part of teams that have planned, designed, and broadcast some of NDTV's most prominent campaigns — the Save the Tiger campaign, the Diageo-NDTV Road to Safety campaign, and the Fortis-NDTV More to Give (Organ Donation) campaign.
He has produced more than fifty documentaries for NDTV, and leads editorial teams, producers, graphics designers, and video editors who work on the news programmes he anchors.
Vishnu has been embedded in war zones covering the conflicts in Ukraine, Kargil, Afghanistan, Congo, and Iraq. He was the only Indian journalist in Sendai during the Japan tsunami, the first reporter to enter the 2001 Bhuj earthquake disaster zone, and the first to report from Great Nicobar during the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Vishnu anchors the prime-time show Left, Right and Centre at 10 pm, among other programmes, and has close to 20,000 hours of live broadcast experience.
His work has been recognised both in India and abroad through awards including the Ramnath Goenka Award, the Commonwealth Broadcasting Award, and the Indian Telly Awards. He was also named Editor's Pick by the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
Vishnu has a personal interest in aviation and cricket, and is a certified scuba diver.
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