A veteran of nearly 28 years, all at NDTV, Vishnu Som is Group Executive Editor.
He anchors the flagship programme Left, Right and Centre at 9pm and has 10,000 hours of live broadcast experience. As a journalist, he focusses on conflict, strategic and international affairs. Vishnu has interviewed several heads of state including Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe, Nobel laureates and global corporate leaders. Vishnu has covered conflict in Ukraine, Iraq, Congo, Kargil, Siachen and Afghanistan. He has broken several reports based on the unprecedented use of satellite imagery on the India-China standoff and China's salami slicing of territory in Bhutan. He has covered natural disasters extensively - the Indian ocean tsunami, the Bhuj and Nepal earthquakes and the impact of the tsunami in Japan including the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant. He has been honoured with a Ramnath Goenka award in journalism, a Commonwealth Broadcast award and was part of the team awarded by the Association of International Broadcasting for NDTV's coverage of the Nirbhaya protests in India. He was also Editor's Choice at the Global Investigative Journalism network for his reports on the construction of illegal Chinese villages along the India-China frontier in Arunachal Pradesh.