Indira Lakshmanan

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
Born
Indira A.R. Lakshmanan

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationJournalist
Known forIdeas & Opinions editor for U.S. News; Senior executive editor for National Geographic; former columnist and correspondent for The Boston Globe and Bloomberg News; panelist and guest-host on NPR

Indira A.R. Lakshmanan is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. who has been a national and foreign correspondent, columnist and news executive for newspapers, magazines, wire services, radio and TV.

She launched and oversees the Ideas and Opinions section at U.S. News & World Report.[1] Previously, she was the global enterprise editor at the Associated Press,[2] leading a multiplatform special projects team, and the Senior Executive Editor and Vice President for News & Features at National Geographic for nearly three years.[3]

Before National Geographic, she was the executive editor at the nonprofit Pulitzer Center[4] on Crisis Reporting, and the Newmark Chair for Journalism Ethics at the nonprofit Poynter Institute for Media Studies.[5]

She has been a frequent panelist for NPR and PBS news programs, and a guest-host for NPR shows, including 1A.

Life

Indira Lakshmanan was a National Merit Scholar and Radcliffe National Scholar at Harvard University, where she was a magna cum laude graduate in the History of Art and Architecture. She attended University of Oxford as a Rotary Scholar, and did graduate studies there in Latin American studies. In 2003, she was awarded a Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard University.[6]

Career

She started her career in public media at NPR on the foreign desk in Washington, D.C., and was a stringer for NPR and other radio networks from Santiago, Chile.

She covered local, national and international news for The Boston Globe, spending more than 10 years as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Latin America and Bosnia. Later, for three years, she wrote a column for the Globe from Washington on politics and foreign policy.

She spent eight years at Bloomberg News as a correspondent based in Washington, D.C., reporting news and enterprise on presidential campaigns and foreign policy, traveling with two secretaries of state and appearing regularly on Bloomberg TV. She also has hosted podcasts and written longform magazine stories for National Geographic[7][8][9][10] and POLITICO Magazine[11][12][13][14] and has contributed to PBS Newshour[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] and Washington Week[22][23][24][25] from the U.S. and overseas.

Her Washington Week profile notes[26] that "she has covered presidential campaigns and interviewed leaders in the U.S. and around the world, reporting from 80 countries on six continents. She has traveled with the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Mitt Romney and traveled regularly with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry for Bloomberg News, and interviewed Clinton more than a dozen times for Bloomberg TV, Radio and Businessweek."

References

  1. ^ "Indira Lakshmanan Joins U.S. News as Ideas & Opinions Editor". U.S. News. April 3, 2024.
  2. ^ "Indira Lakshmanan named global enterprise editor". Associated Press. January 5, 2023.
  3. ^ "National Geographic Adds Indira Lakshmanan As Senior Executive Editor". National Geographic. December 17, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
  4. ^ "Indira Lakshmanan Joins Pulitzer Center as Executive Editor". Pulitzer Center. August 5, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  5. ^ "Award-Winning Journalist Indira Lakshmanan Named the Craig Newmark Chair in Journalism Ethics at Poynter". PR Newswire. March 3, 2017.
  6. ^ "Class of 2004". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  7. ^ "WWII's brutality still haunts the children who survived it". National Geographic. May 8, 2020.
  8. ^ "Angelina Jolie embraces bees—and female beekeepers as environmental guardians". National Geographic. May 19, 2021.
  9. ^ "Angelina Jolie share her passion for empowering women beekeepers". National Geographic. May 19, 2021.
  10. ^ "See Angelina Jolie get up close and personal with some honeybees". National Geographic. May 19, 2021.
  11. ^ "If You Can't Do This Deal, Go Back to Tehran. The inside story of the Obama administration's Iran diplomacy". POLITICO. September 25, 2015.
  12. ^ "The Mystery of the Two Hillarys". POLITICO. April 14, 2016.
  13. ^ "Inside the Plan to Undo the Iran Nuclear Deal". POLITICO. July 15, 2015.
  14. ^ "Hillary Has a Secret Weapon in the Town Hall Debate". POLITICO. October 9, 2016.
  15. ^ "Living with stress for too long may be giving kids asthma". PBS. December 9, 2015.
  16. ^ "U.S. restores embassy while pushing for changes in Cuba". PBS. August 14, 2015.
  17. ^ "Facing resistance from Capitol Hill, U.S. opens Cuba talks". PBS. January 21, 2015.
  18. ^ "Access is sticking point as Iran nuclear talks are extended". PBS. June 30, 2015.
  19. ^ "Negotiators race to meet deadline on Iran's nuclear program". PBS. July 4, 2015.
  20. ^ "Tense and fatigued, negotiators extend Iran nuclear talks past deadline". PBS. July 7, 2015.
  21. ^ "Iran nuclear talks creep toward conclusion as negotiators battle over words". PBS. July 13, 2015.
  22. ^ "Campaign 2016's biggest spender & covering Clinton in 2008". PBS. April 29, 2016.
  23. ^ "Iran Nuclear Agreement, NJ Senator Charged with Corruption". PBS. April 3, 2015.
  24. ^ "Trump acts on Muslim ban and is set to name SCOTUS nominee". PBS. January 27, 2017.
  25. ^ "U.S. will withdraw from Paris climate change agreement". PBS. June 3, 2017.
  26. ^ "WashingtonWeek profile for Indira A.R. Lakshmanan". PBS. June 30, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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