List of Indian journalists

A

• Javed Anand, an alternative journalist, co-founder of Sabrang Communications, and co-editor of Communalism Combat, who is married to journalist Teesta Setalvad. The couple shared the Maharana Mewar Foundation's Hakim Khan Sur Award in 1999.
• Shiv Aroor, specializes in defence news on Republic TV and is an author.

  B

• Neeraj Badhwar Deputy Director of Sahara Samay and Journalist in Times of India
• Shereen Bhan, an executive editor who was named as a 2009 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
• Raju Bharatan, former cricket and music journalist with 'The Illustrated Weekly of India' and 'Screen' and author on several books on cricket and Hindi music personalities.
• Harsha Bhogle is an Indian cricket Commentator and journalist. He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad.
• Anubha Bhonsle, a television and print journalist, a winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Best Political Reporter, 2012 and the Chameli Devi Award for Woman Media Person of the Year, 2014.
• Praful Bidwai, a journalist and activist against nuclear armaments, a past recipient of the C H Mohammed Koya National Journalism Award, who along with Achin Vanaik won the 2000 Sean McBride Peace Prize.
• Mihir Bose is a journalist and author. He writes a weekly "Big Sports Interview" for the London Evening Standard, and also writes and broadcasts on sport and social and historical issues for several outlets including the BBC, the Financial Times and Sunday Times. He was the BBC Sports Editor until 4 August 2009.
• Punya Prasun Bajpai - journalist at Aaj Tak, ABP News. Winner of two Ramnath Goenka awards.
• Shujaat Bukhari - founding editor of Rising Kashmir, killed by gunmen.
• Dionne Bunsha - worked for Frontline. Winner of various journalism awards including a Ramnath Goenka award.

  C

• Vikram Chandra, a journalist, anchor, and group CEO at NDTV. His mother is former journalist Nandini Chandra
• Ramananda Chatterjee, was founder, editor, and owner of the Calcutta based magazine, the Modern Review.He has been described as the father of Indian journalism.
• Devyani Chaubal, Indian film journalist and columnist of 60s and 70s.
• Shoma Chaudhury, managing editor of the Indian daily Tehelka. She has won Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards for print journalism in 2007, the Chameli Devi Award in 2009, and the Mumbai Press Club Award for Political Writing in 2012 on Soni Sori titled, 'The Inconvenient Truth of Soni Sori'.
• Sudhir Chaudary is the senior editor and business head of Zee News where he hosts the prime time show, Daily News & Analysis . Over the period of two decades, he has worked at several Hindi news channels.
• Prabhu Chawla, is a recipient of Padma Bhushan and Editorial Director of The New Indian Express Group as of 2016.
• Preeti Choudhry is a journalist and news anchor for India Today. She has won a Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award in 2014.

  D

• Neha Dixit is a multiple award-winning journalist. In 2019, she was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In 2017, she won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016. In 2015, she won the Press Institute of India-Red Cross award for her story "Shadow Lines" on mass rapes of women in the sectarian violence of North India's Muzaffarnagar.
• Sucheta Dalal, a female columnist, who is the winner of the civilian award Padma Shri in 2006
• Swapan Dasgupta, a senior editor at multiple major newspapers in India and TV personality
• Jyotirmoy Dey, an investigative journalist who was murdered 11 June 2011 and posthumously awarded the Prem Bhatia Award in 2011 for political reporter of the year, which he shared with Josy Joseph
• Dibang, a senior journalist and member of a debate panel with the news channel ABP News, is rated among the best Hindi anchors in the industry today. He is also hosting prime-time show Jana Mana on ABP news.
• Vinod Dua is a journalist, news anchor, political commentator, election analyst who was called the face of Indian television due to his decades of television journalism. He is a recipient of Padma Shri.
• Bahar Dutt, an environmental and wildlife journalist and editor for CNN-News18 and winner of multiple awards, including the 2006 Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in environmental reporting, as well as sister of Barkha Dutt
• Barkha Dutt of NDTV, one of India's best-known female journalists and a past recipient of the C H Mohammed Koya National Journalism Award, gained notoriorty in the Radia_tapes_controversy as well as sister of Bahar Dutt and daughter of early female Indian journalist Prabha Dutt

  G

• T. J. S. George, who is a past recipient of the C H Mohammed Koya National Journalism Award,
• Gour Kishore Ghosh, winner of the 1981 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts
• Santosh Kumar Ghosh, an award-winning Bengali journalist and editor of Anandabazar Patrika
• Pushpa Girimaji, consumer rights journalist.
• Ramnath Goenka Founder of India Express Group and publisher of the English-language The Indian Express, Hindi-language Jansatta, and Marathi-language Loksatta
• J. Gopikrishnan, cartoonist
• Arnab Goswami, Share Owner of Republic TV, Ex Editor-In-Chief of Times Now winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism for the year 2010 in the category of TV journalism.
• Biju Govind, Senior Journalist of The Hindu based in Kerala.
• Kanchan Gupta, is an Indian journalist, political analyst and activist who was associated with The Pioneer and has also worked in the PMO.
• Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief ThePrint.

  H

• Sajjad Haider, is media personality of Indian administered Kashmir, Editor-in-Chief Trans Asia News Service and Founder of Kashmir Observer
• Barjinder Singh Hamdard, Editor-in-chief of the Punjabi-language newspaper, Daily Ajit, from Jalandhar.

  J

• Muzamil Jaleel - was a deputy editor of Indian Express.
• Sarah Jacob - host of We the People, NDTV

  K

• Brahm Kanchibhotla, writer on the developing Telugu community in America
• Anjana Om Kashyap, an Indian journalist and anchor. She is an executive editor of the Hindi news channel Aaj Tak.
• B. K. Karanjia, Indian film journalist and editor, Filmfare and Screen, chairman NFDC
• Sagrika Kissu, Indian journalist and author, works with NewsClick and earlier The Financial Express.
• Kalki Krishnamurthy, a Tamil editor, columnist, and the founder of Kalki magazine.
• Ravish Kumar, is a news anchor, winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award. He is a two-time recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the broadcast category in the Hindi language. He is a published author. He is also the executive editor of NDTV India.

  L

• R. K. Laxman, winner of the 1984 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts

  M

• Ashok Malik a former senior editor for English-language newspaper Indian Express and current columnist for The Times of India, Economic Times, Pioneer and other publications
• Annamma Mathew, chief editor of the Malayalam-language Vanitha women's magazine for Malayala Manorama and wife of K. M. Mathew
• K. M. Mathew, known as the chief editor of Malayala Manorama, which has the largest circulation of any Malayalam-language newspaper, and husband of Annamma Mathew
• Inder Malhotra, received the Ramnath Goenka Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013
• Chandan Mitra a present editor and managing director of The Pioneer newspaper
• Udayan Mukherjee 2012, Ramnath Goenka Awards, Managing Editor for CNBC-TV18.
• Satyendra Murli, Journalist, Media Researcher, Socio-Political activist, Popularly known as an Ambedkarite Journalist, Dr.B.R.Ambedkar National Awardee, Presently associated with Doordarshan Samachar, Public Broadcaster of India.

  N

• Kusum Nair, journalist and writer on agricultural policy
• Chaiti Narula journalist, deputy editor India Today
• A. G. Noorani, a columnist, as well as a historian and lawyer, who is a past recipient of the C H Mohammed Koya National Journalism Award,

  P

• Karma Paljor, Indian television news anchor and journalist.
• Malini Parthasarathy, former Editor and Executive Editor of The Hindu, She also founded The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy.
• Rajalakshmi Parthasarathy, or Mrs. Y. G. P.,, who was a 2010 Padma Shri civilian award recipient
• Nanasaheb Parulekar, a founder of Marathi-language newspaper Sakal and chairman of the Press Trust of India, a news agency.
• Smita Prakash, an Editor-in-chief at Asian News International.
• Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today and the chief executive of the India Today Group. He is the managing director of Thomson Press Limited and the chairman and managing director of TV Today and also the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest India.

  Q

• Sayyid Ahmedullah Qadri, recipient of PadmaShri Awardee in 1966, MLC, Member of State Library Hyderabad, Chairman of Hajj Committee, Andhra Pradesh.

  R

• N. P. Rajendran, an award-winning editor of Mathrubhumi and Malayalam-language journalist
• Nidhi Razdan, recipient of the 2007 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism
• Sai Reddy, a reporter for the Hindi-language Deshandhu, was killed by Maoists 6 December 2013, in Basaguda, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh.
• Prannoy Roy, is an Indian journalist and media personality. He is the co-founder and executive co-chairperson of New Delhi Television

  S

• Palagummi Sainath, winner of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts
• Rohit Sardana is an editor, columnist, news anchor. He is associated with Aaj Tak where he hosts his popular debate program Dangal.
• Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief at India Today television who is a past recipient of the C H Mohammed Koya National Journalism Award,
• A Saye Sekhar, Editor at MeraEvents & Author at Firstpost.
• Niranjan Sengupta, a former president of the National Union of Journalist
• Teesta Setalvad, an award-winning alternative journalist and human rights activist, co-founder of Sabrang Communications, and co-editor of Communalism Combat
• Marya Shakil, anchor and political editor at CNN-News18
• Rajat Sharma, chairman and editor-in-chief of an Indian Hindi news channel, India TV. He is a recipient of Padma Bhushan.
• Arun Shourie, is a World Press Freedom hero and winner of the 1982 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts
• Aarti Tikoo Singh, assistant editor at The Times of India, conflict and international affairs writer and reporter.
• Aditya Sinha, Indian journalist and author. Former Editor-in-Chief of The New Indian Express and DNA.
• Prema Sridevi, Former News Editor English news channel Times Now, former editor for news and special projects Republic TV
• Puripanda Appala Swamy, a Telugu writer, journalist and editor.

  T

• Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, independent journalist and writer.
• Karan Thapar, an award-winning news commentator
• Anshuman Tiwari, a journalist and editor of India Today at India Today Group in New Delhi. He is a multimedia economic/political journalist, analyst, researcher & columnist in multi languages. Honored with Ramnath Goenka Award 2009 for investigative Journalism.
• Madhu Trehan, co-founder of India Today

  V

• Boobli George Verghese, winner of the 1975 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts
• Govind Lal Vora, Editor Amrit Sandesh

  Z

• Sahar Zaman journalist, newscaster, news anchor, art curator, media entrepreneur, jewelry designer, guest lecturer.