New York, June 7 (IANS) Indian
American Jyoti Thottam has been named Time magazine's South Asia bureau
chief in New Delhi. Currently the magazine's New York-based senior
editor, she takes up the new assignment next month.
Thottam replaces Simon Robinson, who held the position since 2006 and
now moves to Time's London office as senior editor, a memo from Rick
Stengel, the magazine's managing editor, said.
India born Thottam was raised mostly in suburban Houston. She came to
Time magazine from On magazine/Time Digital, and before that was a
reporter in Queens, New York, and in Jacksonville, Florida. After
graduating from Yale and earning a master's from Columbia in
international affairs, Thottam got her break in journalism as a Wall
Street Journal intern.
Thottam traveled around India as a freelancer after grad school and is
looking forward to covering South Asia for Time.
"South Asia is one of the most exciting places in the world right now,
and after 10 years in New York City, I was ready to try something new. I
can't imagine a better place to be a journalist, and I'm looking forward
to covering the region's stories, big and small," she told the South
Asian Journalists Association, whose former president she is.
While at Time, her best remembered cover story was on outsourcing, "Is
your job going abroad" in the March 1, 2004 issue. She appeared on the
PBS show "Charlie Rose" that week to discuss the issue along with
renowned economist Jagdish Bhagwati.
Other South Asians in prominent positions at Time magazine's New York
headquerters include Romesh Ratnesar, one of two deputy managing editors
under Stengel, foreign editor Bobby Ghosh, and chief of reporters Ratu
Kamlani.
Stengel's memo also noted Time Asia's senior editor Zoher Abdoolcarim's
move as Time International's Asia editor based in Hong Kong.
There have been several high-profile new appointments of South Asians at
major US publications in 2008: Davan Maharaj became managing editor of
the Los Angeles Times, Vindu Goel was named deputy technology editor of
The New York Times, and Stephanie Mehta took over as global editor of
Fortune magazine.
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