Prema Sridevi

Prema Sridevi (born 2 Feb 1982) is an Indian journalist. She was associated with The Times Group for 12 years until 2016, becoming News Editor of its English news channel Times Now. She joined Republic TV in 2017 as editor for news and special projects, and resigned in 2019 to start her own independent news media venture.[1]

Prema Sridevi
Prema Sridevi in 2019
Born (1982-02-02) 2 February 1982
NationalityIndian
Alma materMount Carmel College, Bangalore
Commits Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication, Bangalore
OccupationJournalist
Years active2005 – present
Parent(s)S. Rajasekharan Nair, R Sridevi

Education

Prema Sridevi was born in Bangalore, Karnataka and is originally from Kerala. She attended Mount Carmel College, Bangalore and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. She continued her education and earned her Master of Arts degree at Commits Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication, Bangalore.[2]

Career

Prema Sridevi Joined Times Now in June 2005 prior to the channel's launch on 23 January 2006 in partnership with Reuters. She worked as bureau chief for its Kerala division until 2010, when she moved to their New Delhi division to work as a news correspondent under editor in chief Arnab Goswami. She resigned in 2016 to join Goswami’s news venture Republic TV as head of the special investigations team. She later became its editor of news and special projects. She resigned in 2019 to start her own news media venture.[1]

Reportage

Times Now

While with Times Now, Sridevi became known for her series of news coverage on the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, an ongoing criminal case in the Gujarat state of India, in which t the Ahmedabad Crime Branch and members of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) of Ahmedabad were accused of jointly having carried out a staged "encounter killing" of four people on 15 June 2004. [3]

Her story on Operation Rajya sabha, on how Rajya sabha seats in the Karnataka elections was up for sale was taken note by the Election Commission of India.[4]

Republic TV

When with Republic TV, Sridevi wrote a series of stories on the mysterious death of Sunanda Pushkar an Indian businesswoman and the wife of Indian former diplomat and politician Shashi Tharoor.[5][6][7] Republic TV broadcast her taped conversations with Sunanda Pushkar and Sunanda’s assistant Narayan Singh; her former employer, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), lodged a complaint against her and Arnab Goswami accusing them of copyright infringement.[8]

Sridevi is also noted for the sting operations on men allegedly belonging to the ISIS India network on May 2017. Her sting of the ISIS operatives in May 2017, which was aired on Republic TV was taken note by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The NIA requested her to share the video tape of the sting operation and after a year the NIA went onto arrest one of the ISIS operatives Abdullah Basit who was stung by Prema Sridevi. The NIA also conducted the voice samples of the journalist and the ISIS operative. The matter is now before the honourable court.[9][10][11] Sridevi’s story titled “The Vadra Papers” exposed the alleged tax evasion of Robert Vadra’s firm. Following the story, Robert Vadra sent a legal notice to Prema Sridevi and Republic TV’s Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami over "defamatory statements" made against his firm.[12]

References
  1. World, Republic. "Republic World". Republic World.
  2. "Commits Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication". Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. "IshratFile : Missing Files and P Chidambaram's Editing". 18 April 2016 – via YouTube.
  4. "Seats For Sale : Operation Rajya Sabha". 2 June 2016 – via YouTube.
  5. Express News Service (8 May 2017). "Journalist claims tapes on Sunanda Pushkar's death handed to cops, Delhi police denies it". newindianexpress. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  6. "Arnab Goswami On Sunanda Murder Tapes - Super Exclusive | Part 1". 4 September 2017 – via YouTube.
  7. "Sunanda Pushkar Murder tape 1". 8 May 2017 – via YouTube.
  8. Staff, Scroll. "Times Group files complaint against Arnab Goswami accusing Republic TV of theft". Scroll.in.
  9. "NIA Arrests ISIS Kingpin Abdullah Basit In Hyderabad". 12 August 2018 – via YouTube.
  10. "Republic Stings ISIS Part-1". 16 May 2017 – via YouTube.
  11. "NIA Court sends ISIS suspect Abdullah Basit to 11 day remand- The Economic Times". 13 August 2018 – via The Economic Times Website.
  12. ""Robert Is Scared": Arnab Goswami on Vadra's Legal Notice". The Quint. 19 July 2018.
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