Sanjay Pugalia

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Who is Sanjay Pugalia?

Sanjay Pugalia is a veteran Indian political and business journalist with print and broadcast experience who is the editor-in-chief of CNBC Awaaz in Mumbai, India. He was hired as a senior news director by several start-up Hindi-language news channels at their launching, including Star News and CNBC Awaaz.

Pugalia has been a leader of several of the private, independent channels as India's media industry was developing 24-news channels beginning in the 1990s – Aaj Tak, Zee News, Star News and now CNBC Awaaz—all of which competed against Doordarshan, India's public television network, and its DD News. The indepdendent TV channels gave Hindi-language journalism in India a visible platform from which to compete against English-language journalism, which created a shift toward Hindi during this era.

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on July 23, 2013

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