Appan Menon (17 September 1947 – 28 June 1996)[1] was a senior Indian print and television journalist, most known News editor and anchor with NDTV.

He anchored the international news show The World This Week on Doordarshan in 1980s and moved to NDTV when it was established in 1988.

[2][3] Starting as an agency reporter, Menon worked with news agencies PTI and UNI, and also covered the United Nations Headquarters for Inter Press Service and specialized in Latin American politics.

Eventually he moved to television, where he anchored The World This Week first with state-run Doordarshan and subsequently with NDTV and became its leading news anchor along with Prannoy Roy[4] He died in his sleep early morning on 28 June 1996 at the age of 48, at the time of death he was news editor with NDTV.

[6] Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami has said that he owed Menon a lot for his career.