Mallika Kapur joind CNN as International Correspondent. She will be based in Mumbai. CNN has also announced the opening of its third editorial operation in Mumbai.
Kapur is joining the network’s existing two correspondents in India – Sara Sidner in Delhi and Liz Neisloss in Chennai. The new position in Mumbai is part of the multi-million dollar investment that CNN announced last year, which has already seen the hiring of an additional 50 staff, including 12 new correspondents based in a total of 43 new and existing CNN editorial operations around the world. New operations are also planned for Kabul, Santiago and Chile.
Kapur started with CNN in 2001 as an assistant producer and was quickly promoted to an anchor and correspondent, covering a wide range of business and news stories in the London production centre.