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Mallika Kapur

Mallika Kapur is a London-based reporter and producer for CNN where she covers a wide range of business and news stories, as well as reporting live from the London Stock Exchange for CNN’s daily business programmes. Kapur also occasionally anchors CNN programmes from London and has also spent two months anchoring in CNN’s Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

Kapur’s news experience includes reporting on the aftermath of the July 2006 railway bombings in Mumbai, and a year previously, covering the London July 7th London bombings. She reported live from outside Edgware Road Tube station and continued to cover the events during the summer of 2005, including live reports from outside Kings Cross Station and Scotland Yard. In 2005 Kapur also travelled to the remote Andaman & Nicobar Islands in India to report on the aftermath of the Asian Tsunami.

Kapur contributes regularly to CNN feature shows including ‘CNN Business Traveller’, ‘Living Golf’, ‘Global Office’, ‘Art of Life’ as well as CNN’s ‘Eye on India’ in both 2004 and 2005

Kapur has been reporting for CNN since 2002 covering a variety of business, market and general news stories in Europe. In 2004 she was promoted to the position of reporter/producer

Kapur joined CNN in 2001 as an assistant producer and was quickly promoted to producer in May 2001, following which she produced CNN's then live news programmes ‘World Business Today’, ‘CNN Today’ and ‘Business International’. Kapur’s field production experience included co-ordinating CNN’s coverage of the NATO meeting in Iceland in May 2002, and the International Telecom fair in Geneva in October 2003.

In 1999, before joining CNN, Kapur, worked for CNBC Asia in Singapore, where she produced their coverage of Bill Clinton’s trip to India in March 2000. In 1998 she worked as a reporter and producer for CNBC in New York.

Kapur’s journalistic career began with an internship in the summer of 1998 at The Statesman newspaper in Calcutta, India.

Kapur is Indian and was born in Calcutta. She graduated in 1997 with a BA (Honours) in International Relations from Brown University, USA, and went on to do a Masters in Broadcast Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1998.

 

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