U.S. Media in South Asia

A listing of full-time correspondents and producers for North American media outlets in South Asia. Most U.S. correspondents cover the Subcontinent from their stations in New Delhi, unless otherwise specified. Business publications are increasingly posting people in Mumbai as well.

Full-time correspondents in South Asia (New Delhi based, unless otherwise specified)

AP-Dow Jones

  • 1997-2004: Ed Lane

The Associated Press

New Delhi Bureau Chiefs

  • 2000-present: Beth Duff-Brown
  • 1993-2000: Arthur Max
  • 1987-93: Earleen Fisher
  • 1984-87: Victoria Graham
  • 1977-84: Gene Kramer
  • 1968-77: Myron Belkind
  • 1966-68: Joe McGowan
  • 1964-66: Conrad Fink
  • 1962-64: Henry Bradsher
  • 1961-62: Jim Becker
  • 1958-61: Watson Sims
  • 1956-58: Charles Lane
  • 1950-56: Harold Milks
  • 1948-50: Marc Purdue
  • 1947-48: Milton Kelly
  • 1942-47: Preston Grover

Non-bureau chiefs

  • 1999-present: Laurinda Keys, news editor, Neelesh Misra, Ramola Talwar, correspondents
  • 1997-1999: Donna Bryson, news editor, Sherwin Crasto, John McConnico, photographers
  • 1980-?: Jim Hatton
  • 1977-80: Barry Shlachter
  • ?-1977: Paul Chutkow
  • 1951-54: Selig S. Harrison
  • TK: Ed Cody
  • TK: Jim Markham

Islamabad

  • 1997-present: Kathy Gannon, bureau chief
  • 1968-1973: Arnold Zeitlin
  • 1982-?: Richard Bill
  • 1980-82: Barry Shlachter (had reopened the bureau after it was shut down in 1976; in 1982, he was expelled by Gen. Zia ul-Haq)
  • Current international editor: Sally Jacobsen; Nick Tatro and Larry Heinzerling, deputies

APTN: Associated Press Television Network

Islamabad

  • Andy Drake, senior producer for South Asia

Business Week

Mumbai

Bloomberg

Mumbai

  • 1999-present: Subramaniam Sharma, bureau chief
  • Michael Hall
  • Anil Penna
  • Gautam Chakravorthy
  • Mrinalini Datta
  • Cherian Thomas
  • Ravil Shirodkar
  • Ramya Venugopal

Delhi

  • Nabeel Mohideen, bureau chief
  • Bharat Ahluwalia
  • Arijit Ghosh
  • Anindya Mukherjee
  • Abhay Singh

Baltimore Sun

  • 1962-63 & 1965-67: James Keat
    (Keat was first a Ford Foundation scholar at the Delhi School of Economics in 1955-56; then was Sun correspondent during the Indo-China war and its aftermath in 1962-63, returning as bureau chief 1966-67; he went on to serve as the paper's first foreign editor, 1969-71, and assistant managing editor from 1975 to 1991; he retired as an editor on the editorial page in 1995).

Chicago Daily News

  • 1947-50: Philips Talbot

Chicago Tribune

  • 1998-present: Uli Schmetzer

CNN

New Delhi

  • 1999-present: Satinder Bindra
  • 1996-1998: Anita Pratap
  • Feb. 1992 - May 1996: Ashis Ray, founding SA bureau chief

Islamabad

  • 2001-present: Ash-Har.Quraishi [at] turner [dot] com

Christian Science Monitor

  • 1999-present: Robert Marquand
  • Current foreign editor: Clayton Jones

CTV TV (Canadian TV)

  • 2001-present: Matt McClure

Los Angeles Times

  • 2000-present: Paul Watson
  • 1998-2000: Dexter Filkins
  • (Colombo: Waruna Karunatilake)
  • 1994-98: John-Thor Dahlburg
  • 1991-94: Bob Drogin
  • 1988-91: Mark Fineman (died Sept. 2003) Fineman was also the Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent in South Asia 1982-85, Fineman LAT obit; Inquirer obit
  • 1986-88: Rone Tempest
  • 1980-82: Tyler Marshall
  • 1976-79: Sharon Rosenhause
  • 1966: bureau opened
  • Current foreign editor: Marjoie Miller
  • 1996-August 2002: Simon Li

National Public Radio

  • 1998 - present: Michael Sullivan
  • 1994-96: Eric Weiner
  • Current Asia editor: Ted Clark
  • Current senior foreign editor: Loren Jenkins