REKHA BASU
E-mail: basur@news.dmreg.com

REKHA BASU is one of the most senior South Asian journalists in the United States.

She starts work in January 2001 as a columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

She was at The Des Moines Register nine years, the first two as an editorial writer, and the last seven as an opinion columnist (her column in the paper was distributed nationwide by Gannett News Service).

Born in New Delhi, Basu spent her early years in India, Libya, Egypt, and Thailand where her parents had United Nations postings, before settling in New York in the 1960s.

She has an M.S. from Columbia University's journalism school, an M.A. in political economy from Goddard-Cambridge Graduate School, and a B.A. in sociology from Brandeis University.

Before becoming a newspaper journalist, she taught political economy to college and graduate students and worked in documentary film and television production in New York. She was an editorial writer at The Des Moines Register and The Daily Gazette in Schenectady, NY before being promoted to a full-time columnist. She has had reporting jobs at a variety of New York state newspapers and the Associated Press, and has had articles or columns published in major North American publications including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, USA Today and The Nation.

She has won a variety of journalism awards.

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