- Amrita Cheema
Amrita Cheema is a journalist of
India nSikh origin who until June 2008 was working inAustralia . She is no longer a news reporter or presenter for SBS World News Australia.Background
Education
Cheema is a
Rhodes Scholar with a D.Phil. in Modern History fromOxford University . She went to Britain after obtaining a first class B.A. and M.A. degree fromSt. Stephen's College ,Delhi . She taught nineteenth century German history at the University of Maryland,Bonn , before joining Radio Deutsche Welle's English Service inCologne .Career in India
Cheema was an editor and anchor of "Star News Sunday" in
Delhi . This 60-minute programme with investigative reports and live interviews had the highest television rating points for a news and current affairs show in the country. She also anchored prime time "Star News English" bulletins, "Newshour" and election specials. In 1994 she was part of a team which launchedIndia 's first news and current affairs television channel.Career in Germany
Cheema moved to
Berlin in 1999 to become one of the hosts of the German international broadcastersDeutsche Welle English language edition of the "Journal", their television news program. She also produced "People and Politics" and "European Journal". In 2000 she worked on the highly acclaimed DW-TV's documentary "The Truth is in no Hurry."As a journalist, she has interviewed world leaders, dissidents and newsmakers.
Cheema had lived in Europe for more than sixteen years. She says that international television allows her to reach out to people from different cultures as they are drawn together by events larger than themselves. The importance of "news" for her lies in interpreting how it touches the lives of individuals, shapes their perceptions and informs their choices.
Career in Australia
In 2005 Amrita moved to
Sydney , Australia and began working for the public multicultural television networkSBS Television on "World News Australia ", where she co-hosted the nowrap|6.30 pm bulletin withAnton Enus on weekdays.In 2008 Amrita resigned from SBS, and read her final bulletin on 6th June 2008. [cite web | title = Amrita Cheema leaving World News Australia| url = http://www20.sbs.com.au/sbscorporate/index.php?id=1250 | publisher = SBS Corporation Accessed =
2008-06-11 ]References
External links
* [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,324034,00.html Amrita Cheema profile at DW-TV]
* [http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/amrita_cheema_131741 Amrita Cheema profile at SBS]
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