Neha Khanna joins WION as Executive Producer & Senior Anchor
Prior to this, she was associated with India Ahead as Executive Editor and a prime time anchor
Senior journalist Neha Khanna has joined WION as Executive Producer and Senior Anchor. Khanna has been a broadcast journalist for 18 years now.
She has covered most major national and international stories over the years and interviewed several top Indian and global newsmakers including Dr Anthony Fauci, the world’s most respected COVID expert and Ukrainian President Zelensky’s top aide.
Khanna has earlier worked at India Ahead and News X as a prime time anchor.
She was with NDTV for 13 years where she anchored the network’s popular show ‘The Buck Stops Here-weekend edition’, among other shows. She has reported on a wide array of foreign policy, geo-political, legal, socio-economic, political, healthcare, gender and human rights stories.
Khanna has interned with the BBC’s Parliamentary Programmes team in London where she reported on proceedings in the British Parliament for BBC Radio 4’s flagship programme ‘Today in Parliament’ and BBC Parliament television channel.
She is a United Nations RAF Fellow and was invited to attend and report on the 70th edition of the UN General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York. She closely interacted with top UN officials including the then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Khanna was also selected as an International Visitor Leadership Programme Fellow by the US State Department and met with several Presidential candidates ahead of the 2020 US Presidential elections.
Khanna is a Chevening Scholar and an Australia-India Youth Dialogue alumnus and has been interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the China Global Television Network and American newspaper ‘The Boston Globe’.
Khanna has studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Hindu College, Delhi University, where she was President of the Debating Society.
In April this year, Khanna was conferred the ‘Best 40 under 40 in English Journalism in India’ award by exchange4media
