Sudhir Chaudhary Biography: Age, Career, Wife, Early Life, Education and other details

Sudhir Chaudhary Biography: Sudhir Chaudhary is an Indian journalist and a renowned media personality who has been currently working at the Hindi News Channel Aaj Tak. Sudhir Chaudhary was formerly the editor-in-chief and CEO of Zee News, Zee Business, and WION. He also hosted the popular prime time show Daily News & Analysis (DNA) on Zee News. Sudhir Chaudhary has been a part of the television news industry since the 1990s and has become a household name for his prime-time show covering a series of topics including politics, and religion, among others. Earlier in 2015, Sudhir Chaudhary received X-category security after the allegations that someone had threatened to murder him.

Know more about Sudhir Chaudhary life history, Age, Wife, Family, Education, and other details.

Sudhir Chaudhary Biography

Sudhir Chaudhary Family Life

Sudhir Chaudhary was born on June 7, 1974, in Hodal town in Sondhbad in Haryana. Sudhir Chaudhary is married to Niti Chaudhary and he has been active in the field of journalism from the year 1993.

Sudhir Chaudhary Education

Sudhir Chaudhary is a prominent name in the field of the television news industry. His education is from the prominent university and colleges which further led the path of success for him. Sudhir Chaudhary did his graduation from Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, Delhi University and his higher education in mass communication is from the Indian Institute of Mass communication.

Sudhir Chaudhary Career

Sudhir Chaudhary has been working in the television news industry since the 1990s. He belongs to the first generation of television journalists, as he was in live television reporting and then 24 hours news television.

Sudhir Chaudhary was told to be in the squad which covered the Vajpayee-Musharraf Indo-Pak meeting at Islamabad, after the Indian Parliament Attack in 2001. He left Zee News in 2003 and was instrumental in the launch of Sahara Samay, which was the Hindi-language news channel of the Sahara Group.

He also joined India TV for a brief period of time, however, in 2012 he rejoined Zee News where he hosted the Prime Time show Daily News & Analysis (DNA).

Sudhir Chaudhary Controversy

Islamophobia accusations

Sudhir Chaudhary was accused of openly accusing Muslims of impeding India’s COVID-19 war. In May 2020, Kerala Police filed a First Information Report (Fir) against Sudhir Chaudhary for his March 11 broadcast of DNA, in which he discussed the types of jihads that were criticized as Islamophobic.

Jindal Extortion Case

Sudhir Chaudhary and his colleague Sameer Ahluwalia were arrested in 2012 on charges of extortion after businessman Naveen Jindal alleged that the two journalists had tried to extort Rs. 100 crores worth of advertisements from his company in exchange for dropping the stories that linked the Jindal Group with the Coalgate Scam.

Allegations against Mahua Moitra

Sudhir Chaudhary accused Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra of plagiarising the speech of Truman Longman pointing out the early signs of fascism in India while both Longman and Moitra later denied plagiarising the speech.

Mahua Moitra later filed a criminal defamation case against Sudhir Chaudhary after which he on his daily prime time show accepted that only a part of Mohua Moitra's speech was broadcast and showed his regret.

Sudhir Chaudhary Awards

Sudhir Chaudhary won a Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2013 in the 'Hindi Broadcast' category. Chaudhary won the award for his interview with the friend of the Delhi December 16 gang-rape victim. 

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