He has also won the Asian Television Awards 2014 for Best News Presenter in Asia for the coverage of the 2014 general elections.
Specialising in national politics, Sardesai has won numerous awards for journalistic excellence including the prestigious Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008, the International Broadcasters Award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots, and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for 2007. He is presently a consulting editor with the India Today Group and anchors a prime time show on India Today. He began his career with the Times of India and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition at the age of 26.
With 26 years of journalistic experience in print and TV, Sardesai was managing editor of the NDTV network before he set up the IBN 18 network with channels like CNN IBN as founder editor. Rajdeep Sardesai is a senior journalist and author of the best-selling book, '2014: The Election that Changed India'.
