Anushka Asthana
Anushka Asthana (born 1980) is a British journalist and newsreader. She currently works as a political correspondent for Sky News and will become the joint political editor of The Guardian newspaper in early 2016.
Asthana was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and raised in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester.[1] Her parents, both doctors, moved to the United Kingdom from New Delhi, India in the 1970s.[2] She attended Manchester High School for Girls and read economics at Cambridge University.[3]
She joined The Observer as a general reporter in 2003 and spent several months at The Washington Post in 2006.[1] Later she was a political correspondent for The Times before beginning to work for Sky News in 2013.[4][5]
In succession to Patrick Wintour, Asthana was appointed in December 2015 as the joint political editor of The Guardian, in a job share arrangement with Heather Stewart to begin in early 2016.[6][7]
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- Anushka Asthana's Twitter account
- Asthana's Guardian profile page
- Sky News profile page
- Election 2015: the female journalists asking the hard questions, The Guardian
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