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    Nalin Mehta, Executive Editor of Times of India Online, steps down

    by Ruhail Amin in exchange4media : Jan 6, 2021
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    Mehta will be taking up the position of Dean, School of Modern Media, at UPES, and Advisor, Global University Systems

    Professor Nalin Mehta

    Nalin Mehta Executive Editor Times of India Online has stepped down to pursue his passion in academics. He will be taking up a position as Dean, School of Modern Media, at UPES, and Advisor, Global University Systems.

    Mehta’s tenure at TOI Online saw several innovations on big data and election coverage, digital video and interactive news story-telling.

    Mehta has previously been Consulting Editor, Times of India; Managing Editor, India Today (English TV news channel) and is also an award-winning social scientist and author. His book, ‘Behind a Billion Screens: What Television Tells Us About Modern India’ (HarperCollins, 2015) was long-listed for business book of the year by Tata Literary Live and his India on Television won the Asian Publishing Award, 2009. His latest co-authored book Dreams of a Billion, is a national bestseller.

    Mehta was founding co-director, Times Literary Festival; senior fellow, India Development Foundation (IDF), an editor, South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) book series and journal.

    Mehta has been associate professor at Shiv Nadar University and adjunct professor at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has also held visiting appointments and fellowships at National University of Singapore, Australian National University, Canberra, La Trobe University, Melbourne, and the International Olympics Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland

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    Nalin Mehta is Managing Editor, Moneycontrol, Chief AI Officer - Editorial Operations, Network18 and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He is an award-winning Indian journalist, political scientist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major media companies and educational institutions; served as an international civil servant with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (La Trobe University, ANU), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (Shiv Nadar University, IIM Bangalore). Most recently, he has been Dean and Professor at School of Modern Media, UPES University. He has previously been Group Consulting Editor, Network18; Executive Editor, The Times of India-Online, Managing Editor, India Today (TV channel) and Consulting Editor, The Times of India. Mehta is the author of several best-selling and critically acclaimed books, including The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party (hailed as a ‘seminal’ work, No. 1 on Amazon’s bestseller lists for 26 consecutive weeks in 2022, and republished worldwide in several languages); India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy, India on Television (Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media, 2009), Behind a Billion Screens (Longlisted as Business Book of the Year, Tata Literature Live, 2015) and Dreams of a Billion (2022 Ekamra Sports Book of the Year Award, co-authored). His edited books include Gujarat Beyond Gandhi (co-editor), Television in India and The Changing Face of Cricket (co-editor). Mehta is a DFID-Commonwealth scholar with a Ph.D in Political Science from Trobe University, Melbourne; M.A. International Relations from University of East Anglia, UK; and B.A. Journalism (Honours) from University of Delhi.

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