Arnab Goswami

Arnab Goswami

Arnab Goswami is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network. His news channel Republic TV was launched in May 2017. He was the first television anchor to interview Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he took over in November 2014. He won an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards.

About Arnab Goswami in brief

Summary Arnab GoswamiArnab Goswami is an Indian news anchor. He is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network. His news channel Republic TV was launched in May 2017. He was the first television anchor to interview Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he took over in November 2014. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the Hindu College in Delhi University. In 1994 he completed his Master’s in Social Anthropology from St. Antony’s College, at Oxford University, where he was a Felix Scholar. His maternal grandfather, Gaurisankar Bhattacharyya, was an elected legislator from the Communist Party of India and served as the leader of the opposition in Assam for many years. His paternal grandfather Rajani Kanta Gos wami was a lawyer. His uncle is a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly for the BJP from Gauhati East constituency. His father joined the Indian Army in the early 1960s and retired as a colonel after serving in the army for nearly 30 years. He attended schools across various parts of India. He passed his 10th Standard board exams from St Mary’s School in Delhi Cantonment and his 12th StandardBoard exams from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jabalpur Cantonments.

GoswAMI is married to Samyabrata Ray Gos wam, who is also a journalist and a co-owner of Republic TV. The couple has a son, Che Goswamsi, named after the revolutionary Che Guevara. His mother is Suprabha Gain-Goswami, an author and a former member of Assam’s Legislative Assembly. He had stints at NDTV and The Telegraph. He left NDTV to join the newly-launched Times Now news channel, as its editor- in-chief in 2006. He also hosted a special programme, Frankly Speaking with Arnab, which has featured personalities such as Benazir Bhutto and former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In November 2016, he resigned from Times Now, citing editorial differences, lack of journalistic freedom and lack of newsroom politics. He hosted the last edition of his flagship show, The Newshour Debate, a fortnight later. He won an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards. The show has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the UK government-approved authority for broadcasting, the UK-approved Authority Ofcom, which was funded by Rajeev Chandrasekhar.