Nikhil Deogun circa 2000

Nikhil Deogun is deputy Washington bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, a post he move to in March 2004. From November 2001 to March 2004, he was media and marketing editor for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He oversaw a group of reporters who cover entertainment, publishing, television, advertising, consumer products and fashion. Prior to becoming bureau chief, Nikhil was mergers & acquisitions reporter for the Journal covering many of the biggest acquisitions during the merger boom of the late 1990s. He joined the Journal in 1994, starting in the Journal's Atlanta bureau, where he covered a variety of beats, including beverages and banking, in addition to covering the Southeastern U.S. His work at the Atlanta bureau, especially his coverage of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc., was widely recognized as being ahead of the competition. Born in Assam, Nikhil grew up in Calcutta and studied at the Doon School. His first newspaper job was an internship at The Statesman. Nikhil received his bachelor's degree from Muskingum College in Ohio and his master's in journalism from the University of Missouri. Nikhil has worked or interned at the Atlanta Business Chronicle, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Star-Tribune of Minneapolis, among other publications. E-mail Deogun updated: April 2003   SAJAers at AAJA Chicago in 1998: Pradnya Joshi, reporter, Newsday; Gita Sharma-Jensen, reporter, Milwaukee Sentinel Journal; Nikhil Deogun, reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Subrata Chakravarty, assistant managing editor, Forbes; Ameet Sachdev, reporter, St. Pete Times.

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