Indira A.R. Lakshmanan (born 1969) is a journalist and news executive based in Washington, D.C., now in charge of managing Ideas and Opinions section at U.S. News & World Report. She served as senior executive editor for National Geographic from 2020 to 2022.[1][2]
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| Born | Indira A.R. Lakshmanan 1969 (age 54–55) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Senior executive editor for National Geographic, former politics reporter for The Boston Globe and Washington Week panelist on PBS |
Life
editIndira A.R. Lakshmanan was a National Merit Scholar and a Radcliffe National Scholar at Harvard University, where she was a magna cum laude graduate in the History of Art and Architecture. She attended University of Oxford as a Rotary Scholar, and did graduate studies there in Latin American studies. In 2003, she was awarded a Nieman journalism fellowship at Harvard University.[3] Lakshmanan claims to be a descendent of Kazimierz Pułaski through her mother, Teresa Lakshmanan (née Romanowska).[4]
Career
editShe was a columnist for the Boston Globe, writing about foreign policy and politics, and Newmark Chair for Journalism Ethics at the Poynter Institute.[5] She also worked as an executive editor at the Pulitzer Center.[6] She also worked at Bloomberg News and for The Boston Globe as a foreign correspondent.[6] She is a sometime panelist on Washington Week on PBS. Her Washington Week profile notes[7] that "She has covered presidential campaigns and interviewed leaders in the U.S. and around the world, reporting from 80 countries on six continents. She has traveled with the campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Mitt Romney,[8] and traveled regularly with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry for Bloomberg News, and interviewed Clinton more than a dozen times for Bloomberg TV, Radio and Businessweek."
References
edit- ^ "National Geographic Adds Indira Lakshmanan As Senior Executive Editor". National Geographic. December 17, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ Farhi, Paul (September 6, 2022). "National Geographic magazine lays off 6 of its top editors". The Guam Daily Post. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
- ^ "Class of 2004". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^ Lakshmanan, Indira A.R. (May 8, 2020). "WWII's brutality still haunts the children who survived it". National Geographic. Archived from the original on July 16, 2022. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
- ^ "Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Author at Poynter". Poynter. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
- ^ a b "Indira Lakshmanan Joins Pulitzer Center as Executive Editor". Pulitzer Center. August 5, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^ "WashingtonWeek profile for Indira A.R. Lakshmanan". PBS.
- ^ "SID-Washington". sidw.org. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
External links
edit- Indira Lakshmanan on Facebook
- Bloomberg articles by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
- Washington Week profile for Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
- Poynter posts by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan
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