Assistant Managing Editor
The Wall Street Journal
[ Jan. 11, 2007: Tunku Varadarajan is named assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. See full coverage at SAJAforum.org ]
Tunku Varadarajan is currently editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal. He is a former chief TV and media critic for the paper and columnist for OpinionJournal.com, a WSJ sister site. He is a former Oxford law professor who turned to journalism at the age of 32.
An
archive of his columns is at http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/tvaradarajan/archive/
He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Amy Finnerty, a freelance writer
for The New York Times Magazine.
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The Talk of the Town
Tunku Varadarajan's Survival Kit: Laptop and Black Tie
By Liesl Schillinger
Excerpt: "Varadarajan grew up in New Delhi, Lucknow, and, briefly, New York... After attending Trinity College, Oxford, Varadarajan stayed on to teach law there for six years. In 1993, he shocked his friends by taking a summer-trainee job in the Times' editorial department. Three year's later, the paper posted him to Madrid, and a year after that he was sent to New York... However late he may be out at night, he's in his office at six-thirty every morning in a race to meet his London deadline by 2 P.M. His stamina shows no signs of flagging; indeed, he's eager to sample even more of the social scene..."