Vikram Chandra (born 7 January 1967) is an Indian journalist, who founded Editorji Technologies, a multilingual video news platform.
[1] While HT Media and Bharti Airtel were among the early investors in editorji, in July 2020, the RP-Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) Group acquired 51 percent stake.
[6] Chandra began his career in television journalism in 1991 working with a TV news magazine called Newstrack.
[6] During these years, he worked on the prime time 9 O'Clock News, Gadget Guru (with Rajiv Makhni), which was a review show about new technologies.
He is best known for his award-winning anchor position on The Big Fight, which is one of India's top rated talk and current affairs shows.
Separately, Chandra was fined Rs 6,67,000 by SEBI in November 2020, and was barred from the securities market, along with some other NDTV employees.
[16] As the anchor of The Big Fight (NDTV), Chandra has interviewed King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2006,[17] Bill Gates in 2012,[18] Shimon Peres,[citation needed] and Rupert Murdoch.
He has worked on several "Greenathons," which is a media campaign to expand the electrical system to rural areas and finance solar lanterns to bring light to homes.