Amrita Cheema
Amrita Cheema at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in 2011.
Born
Deolali, India[1]
EducationUniversity of Oxford
Occupation(s)Journalist and News presenter

Amrita Cheema is an Indian journalist. She has been working since 1999 as a news presenter with the German international TV broadcaster Deutsche Welle-TV. From 2005 to 2008, she spent some years with the Australian broadcaster SBS Television.[2][3][4]

Cheema is a Rhodes Scholar with a D.Phil. in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 1988. She went to Britain after obtaining a first class B.A. and M.A. degree from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.[5] She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland in Bonn before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service in Cologne.[4]

Career

Cheema was an editor and anchor of Star News Sunday in Delhi. This 60-minute programme with investigative reports and live interviews had the highest television rating points for a news and current affairs show in the country.[4] She also anchored prime time Star News English bulletins, Newshour and election specials.[1] In 1994, she was part of a team which launched India's first news and current affairs television channel Television International (TVI), under the Business India TV umbrella.[4]

Cheema moved to Berlin in 1998 to become one of the hosts of the German international broadcasters Deutsche Welle English language edition of the Journal,[1] their television news program. She also produced People and Politics and European Journal.[4] In 2000, she worked on the DW-TV's documentary The Truth Is in No Hurry.

As a journalist, she has interviewed world leaders, dissidents, and newsmakers.

Cheema had lived in Europe for more than sixteen years.[4]

In 2005, Cheema moved to Sydney, Australia and began working for the public multicultural television network SBS Television on World News Australia,[1] where she co-hosted the 6.30 pm bulletin with Anton Enus on weekdays.[3][4]

In 2008, Cheema resigned from SBS, and read her final bulletin on 6 June 2008.[6] She since has returned to Deutsche Welle in Germany.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Deutsche Welle profile. Retrieved: 25 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Amrita Cheema". World Economic Forum.
  3. 1 2 3 "Another news presenter farewells SBS". 19 May 2008.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Newsmaker". India Today.
  5. ↑ "St. Stephen's College, Delhi, India: HISTORY". ase.tufts.edu.
  6. ↑ "Amrita Cheema leaving World News Australia". SBS Corporation. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Accessed = 2008-06-11
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