JAMMU: Senior Journalist Tejinder Singh Sodhi has been appointed as Bureau Chief / Editor with the most awaited upcoming news venture Republic TV headed by renowned Journalist Arnab Goswami.
Before being appointed by ARG Outlier Media the parent company of Republic, Sodhi worked as Principal Correspondent with India’s premier news agency Press Trust of India (PTI), in its Jammu Bureau.
Sodhi who started his career at The Kashmir Monitor has also worked with Indo Asian News Service (IANS) The Hindustan Times, The Tribune at various positions.
An Alumnus of the Media Education and Research Centre (MERC), University of Kashmir, Sodhi holds a Master of Arts Degree in Journalism from University of Kashmir, a Master of Science Degree from the William Allen White School of Journalism, University of Kansas (USA).
A recipient of Ford Foundation Fellowship, McCormick Fellowship, Sodhi had been an expert Panelist at the National Press Club Washington DC, he had also studied a special Media and Military Course at the US Army Command and General Staff College Ford Leavenworth (Kansas USA). In 2012 Sodhi was nominated for the World Sikh Award London (Sikhs in Media category).