Hires & Promotions: Reuters, The Wire

YP Rajesh joins Reuters as India Political and General News Editor

YP Rajesh has rejoined Reuters as India Political and General News Editor.

Rajesh is a senior journalist with three decades of rich experience covering South Asia and leading large newsrooms in India. His career has spanned India's top magazines and newspapers, a digital news platform, besides a decade at Reuters.  

As a reporter, he has written on politics, security and diplomacy out of India, its neighbours, the US and Israel, among others; technology and general news out of Bangalore and Mumbai; and society, lifestyle, entertainment and sports from across the region. 

As an editor, he has led teams to award-winning coverage of the 26/11 attacks in Mumbai and Covid in India, and trained and mentored dozens of young reporters and copy editors. He was Co-Founder and Managing Editor at ThePrint, where he also hosted a weekly political economy video show.

Seema Chishti joins The Wire as Editor

Senior journalist Seema Chishti has joined The Wire as Editor.

As per reports, she will be in charge of The Wire’s English, Hindi and Urdu editions and be accountable to the Editorial Board, comprising the three Founding Editors, whose primary role will remain setting the broad editorial direction and policy of The Wire, expanding its reach and ensuring its financial sustainability.

Chishti joins The Wire after decades of experience as a reporter, author, researcher, educator, broadcaster and editor. She has reported and written extensively on virtually all the major issues of the past three decades, beginning with the 1990 reforms and the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which she covered for Hindustan Times Television, a video magazine that predated the advent of news television channels in India. 

Most recently, she has been working as an independent writer, publishing in both the national and international media. She is also one of the founders of The India Cable newsletter. Before that, she had been associated with The Indian Express for 14 years in various capacities, including Resident Editor, Delhi, before leaving the newspaper as Deputy Editor in 2020.

At the BBC, where she worked for several years before joining The Indian Express, Chishti served as Editor, Hindi and Head of Delhi Bureau, BBC World Service. She was also a producer and then anchor of a daily Hindi primetime news bulletin, working first out of London and then New Delhi between 1994 and 1998.