Palki Sharma Upadhyay, Executive Editor of WION, gets

TV Anchor of the Year award at IAA Leadership awards 2021

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NEW DELHI, September 29 2021: Palki Sharma Upadhyay, Executive Editor of WION has been felicitated with the prestigious TV Anchor of the Year award at the IAA Leadership awards 2021 held at Taj Landsend in Mumbai. Upadhyay who has contributed 20 years to the field of journalism and has been with WION for 4 years currently hosts the prime-time news program Gravitas. 

The India Chapter of the International Advertising Association established the IAA Leadership Awards to honour individuals in the fields of Marketing, Advertising, and Media, who have made enormous professional contributions and delivered business success to their companies. 

India’s First Global News channel WION has more than 35 bureaus across global cities and expanding its footprint in 190 countries across Africa, Europe, Russia, USA, South America, APAC region, and MENA region and is currently accessed across 4 billion connected devices globally. Transforming the age-old pattern of western narratives on world issues, WION has been instrumental in becoming the voice of a new India bringing the Indian perspective to the global news stage.

Palki Sharma Upadhyay thanked the IAA committee for conferring this award. Special mention goes out to my team who toil hard to get factually correct information on which we base our reports. It is always our endeavour to arm the viewers with information that creates awareness about the world, and so it shall continue to be, she added.