Mini Menon is an Indian journalist and author. She is the co-founder and editor of Live History India.
Mini Menon was formerly the Executive Editor of Bloomberg TV India, where she was in charge of news and feature shows. She has also reported on political, economic, and business news. She has won awards for her work as a news anchor and journalist. In 2013, she was adjudged one of the 10 most influential women in Indian marketing, advertising, and media by Impact magazine and was also called a "popular face on Indian news television" by The Times of India.
Biography
Mini was born in Jammu into a Malayali family from Kerala, and her father was in the army. Her early years were spent across India as her father (late Lt. Gen. P. E Menon) was posted in different parts of the country.
Mini graduated from St Stephen’s College, Delhi with a degree in history. Mini participated in and won the Femina Miss India Asia Pacific title after her second year in college in 1996. She went on to do her Masters in Communication Research at the University of Pune. In 2001, she won the Chevening scholarship and went to study broadcast journalism in the UK.
Career
As co-founder and editor of Live History India, Mini Menon will drive the content and vision for the company. Live History India is a digital media company focused on the stories that make India.
Over the last 16 years, Mini has covered both political and business news. Menon first started working at TVi and moved on to Star TV Network. She was the news anchor for Goodlife on CNBC TV18 in 2004.
At Bloomberg TV India, Mini did a popular series, "Inside India's Best Known Companies", where she interviewed India's leading businessmen and CEOs. She also led feature programming and was responsible for creating cutting-edge shows like "The Pitch" and "Assignment" and award-winning documentaries like "In Focus".
In 2013, Mini's book Riding the Wave, on seven of India's leading businessmen, was published by HarperCollins. The book covers how these businessmen used "changing trends" in India in order to shape modern industries.
Awards and recognition
In 2008–2009, she was judged the best business news anchor by the Indian Broadcast Federation, the Zee Astitva Award for Journalism, the Rajiv Gandhi Award for Excellence as a Young Achiever, and Miss India Asia Pacific.
Initiatives and Associations
2012: invited to be a member of CII’s National Committee on Marketing; 2014: took over as the Regional Chairperson of CII's Indian Women Network, IWN.
In 2014, Mini also joined the National Advisory Board of Enactus.
2021: Mini is also closely associated with www.peepultree.in, an e-commerce website that has created a platform for award-winning artisans from across India.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20130503093104/http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/13333.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140529155143/http://www.nasscom.in/sites/default/files/Speakers/Mini%20Menon-%20Final.pdf http://www.indiantelevision.com/special/y2k4/cnbc_team.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20130916191617/http://harpercollins.co.in/author.asp?Author_Code=2454
Journalists from Jammu and Kashmir
Living people
Indian women journalists
People from Jammu (city) 20th-century Indian journalists Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Indian women