Shekhar Gupta, Founder, and Chief-Editor of The Print

Shekhar Gupta is an author and journalist from India. He is the publisher’s founder and current editor-in-chief. He also contributes a weekly column to the Business Standard, which appears every Saturday. He worked for The Indian Express and India Today for a long time. Gupta contributes a weekly column to India Today magazine called “National Interest.” In 2014, he published Anticipating India, a collection of his “National Interest” pieces for The Indian Express. On NDTV, he also presented an interview-based television show called Walk the Talk, which aired 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Panjab University. In 1977, he began his career as a journalist with The Indian Express. He stayed for six years before leaving to join India Today, where he covered Operation Bluestar, the Assam Nellie Massacre, and the Gulf War in 1991. He subsequently returned to The Indian Express as editor-in-chief and CEO, where he had spent the previous 19 years. ThePrint’s objective, according to Gupta, is to be both factual and liberal.

Shekhar Gupta has won a number of honors, including the Inlaks Award for Young Journalist of the Year in 1985, the G. K. Reddy Award for Journalism, and the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Memorial Award for National Integration. In 2009, the then-Indian government honored him with the Padma Bhushan award for his contributions to journalism.
The Indian Express earned the International Press Institute’s Award for Outstanding Journalism in the Public Interest three times during his leadership.