Mallika Kapur is a Mumbai-based international correspondent for CNN where she covers a wide range of business and news stories, as well as live breaking news within South Asia.
In her new position, Kapur has reported extensively on the Mumbai terrorist attacks and the subsequent investigation. She has also reported on the Indian financial market, as part of the network's coverage of the global financial meltdown. While based in Mumbai, she has also covered stories on India's hot property market and retail business for CNN's special programming week, India Means Business.
Kapur has also anchored CNN programmes from London and spent two months anchoring in CNN's Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. While in Hong Kong, she reported live from the World Trade Organization meeting held there. She has also reported extensively on the European stock markets from the London Stock Exchange.
Kapur's news experience includes reporting on the aftermath of the July 2006 railway bombings in Mumbai, and a year previously, covering the 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 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. She contributes regularly to CNN feature shows including 'CNN Business Traveller', 'Living Golf' as well as CNN's 'Eye on India' in both 2004 and 2005.
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 - first in New York, then in Singapore.
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. Her journalistic career began with an internship in the summer of 1998 at The Statesman newspaper in Calcutta, India.
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