Arnab Ranjan Goswami is an Indian news anchor. He serves as the Republic Media Network’s managing director and editor-in-chief. Arnab Ranjan Goswami was editor-in-chief and a news anchor for Times Now and ET Now before launching his own network. He worked for NDTV and The Telegraph, among other places. While anchoring The Newshour on Times Now, he received widespread acclaim. In May of 2017, he founded Republic TV. Republic Tv in English and Republic Bharat in Hindi are both owned and operated by his network. Goswami, on the other hand, has long been chastised for his biased reporting in favor of the BJP and Hindutva in a variety of contexts.

Arnab Goswami’s Net worth?

In the Indian journalism industry, Arnab Goswami is a well-known name. He began his career as a journalist at The Telegraph and rose through the ranks to become the managing director of RepublicTV, where he holds an 82 percent interest. His profession allows him to earn a lot of money. His current estimated net worth is $54 million.

Why is Arnab Goswami famous?

• Managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network.

Who is the Arnab Goswami family?

On March 7, 1973, Arnab Goswami was born. Arnab Ranjan Goswami is his full name. Guwahati, Assam, India, is where he was born. His nationality is Indian. He is of Indian and Asian descent. Hinduism is his faith, and Libra is his zodiac sign.  His father joined the Bharatiya Janata Party after retiring from the Indian army. In the 1998 Lok Sabha elections for the Guwahati constituency, his father ran unsuccessfully for the BJP. His father was a columnist and author who contributed to a number of publications. The Asam Sahitya Sabha Award was given to his father in 2017.

Rajani Kanta Goswami was Goswami’s paternal grandfather. Gaurisankar Bhattacharyya, his maternal grandpa, was an elected legislator and the leader of the opposition in Assam for the Communist Party of India. Siddhartha Bhattacharya, his maternal uncle, represents the BJP in the Assam Legislative Assembly from Gauhati East.

Early life

Goswami attended a number of different schools throughout his childhood. Due to his father’s military service, he is unable to travel. St Mary’s School in Delhi Cantonment is where he finished his 10th grade board exams. Kendriya Vidyalaya in Jabalpur Cantonment was where he finished his high school (12th standard board exams). After that, he went to Delhi University’s Hindu College. His bachelor’s degree is in sociology. In 1994, he graduated from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, with a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology.

Career

• Arnab Goswami started working as a journalist with The Telegraph in Kolkata.
• He then moved to Delhi and joined NDTV in 1996.
• He anchored daily newscasts including News Tonight and Newsnight.
• Arnab Goswami  won an award for the Best News Anchor of Asia 2004 in the 2004 Asian Television Awards.
• He worked at NDTV from 1996 to 2006.
• Arnab Goswami  left NDTV in 2006. He joined the newly-launched Times Now news channel. He joined the network as an editor-in-chief.
• At Times Now, he hosted The Newshour, Frankly Speaking with Arnab.
• Several high profile personalities including Benazir Bhutto, Gordon Brown, Hamid Karzai, the Dalai Lama, Hillary Clinton, and Narendra Modi were featured in his show.
• He won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (TV) in 2008.
• Arnab Goswami  resigned from his position as editor-in-chief of Times Now in November 2016. He resigned citing editorial differences, lack of journalistic freedom and newsroom politics.
• He became the managing director as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the Republic TV in 2017.
• The network operates two channels: Republic TV in English and Republic Bharat in Hindi.
• He bought a large amount of shares to gain near full ownership of the network. He owns 82 percent stake in Republic TV.
• It was the most watched English news channel in India for 100 weeks in a row since its founding. Goswami is credited to achieve this feat.
• He wrote a book: Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge in 2002.
• Goswami was unanimously elected as the President of News Boradcasting Federation in December 2019. The federation looks over 78 channels.
• He resigned from Editors Guild in April 2020, in the wake of 2020 Palghar mob lynching. Arnab accused Shekhar Gupta of leading the compromise on journalism for not speaking on incidents like this. Nagpur police registered a first information report against Arnab Goswami over a complaint filed by Maharashtra Power Minister Nitin Raut. The FIR filed by the police include charges of giving provocation with intent to cause riot, promoting enmity between two groups on grounds of religion or race, deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs and defamation under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
• He has been accused of opinionated reporting in support of Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindutva across a wide spectrum of situations.
• Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi High Court against Goswami and Republic TV in connection with the channel’s broadcast of news items from 8 to 13 May claiming his link in his wife Sunanda Pushkar’s death in 2014.
• Goswami’s 30-second video clip about the flood-hit state of Kerala went viral on social media and stirred another controversy in August 2018. He purportedly called, “a group” the “most shameless bunch of Indians I have ever seen”.
• News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) of India demanded Republic TV to tender a full-screen apology in August 2018 for use of multiple objectionable words to describe a bunch of people at a political rally, who were harassing one of his journalists. Republic TV “removed the video from its website and YouTube account”. However, RepublicTV never made public apology.
• Goswami had confrontation with the Uddhav Thackeray government after two of RepublicTV staff were arrested in September 2020 for allegedly tresspassing on a farmhouse of Thackeray.
• Mumbai Police arrested Goswami on 4 November 2020 in connection in a 2018 suicide case of Anvay Naik under Section 306 and Section 34 of IPC. Naik had named Goswami among three individuals in his suicide note. The note named non payment of dues from them as the reason for committing suicide.

Who is the wife of Goswami?

Arnab Goswami is a husband and father of two children. Samyabrata Ray Goswami, his wife, is his life partner. His wife is a journalist who runs Republic TV with him. A son was born to the couple. More information about his personal life will be made available in the near future.

Height

Arnab Goswami is 5 feet and 11 inches tall and stands at a height of 1.8 m. His physique is ordinary. His eyes and hair are both dark brown. He is a heterosexual man.

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