Shaili Chopra

Shaili Chopra is an Indian business journalist, author and entrepreneur. She is the founder of SheThePeople.TV, a platform to empower women with stories of role models and inspire them with a changing conversation on women and what matters to them. As a business journalist, she is known for working at NDTV-profit and ETNOW and has won the 2012 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism among various other awards. She then switched to being an entrepreneur and wrote four books. Her ventures are India's women's channel SheThePeople.TV and GolfingIndian.com. Her books include Feminist Rani by Penguin, When I Was 25 by Random House, Big Connect- Social Media and Indian Politics by Random House, and Birdies in Business by Times Books.

Shaili Chopra
Born (1981-07-21) 21 July 1981
Jalandhar, Punjab, India
EducationMaster in Broadcast and television
OccupationEntrepreneur, author (previously journalist)
Spouse(s)Shivnath Thukral

Early life

Shaili Chopra was born in Jalandhar on 21 July 1981 in Punjab to Anil and Suman. Anil Chopra is a retired fighter pilot from Indian Air Force. In 1998, Chopra finished her schooling from Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute, New Delhi. Chopra finished her master's degree in Broadcast and Television from 2002 batch, The Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. She trained in broadcast with the BBC at journalism school. She has worked at CNBC, NDTV and ETNOW.[1][2]

Professional life
Shaili Chopra

She worked with NDTV 24 x 7 as Markets & Corporate Affairs Editor and NDTV Profit as the Senior News Editor-Corporate for over five years and then with ET NOW for three years. She has also covered international events like the G-20, WEF@Davos, The Bretton Woods Conference 2011, India Economic Summit and the World Retail Congress. She was named one of India's 50 most influential women in media, marketing and advertising by Impact Magazine.

Chopra and her husband Shivnath Thukral also reported live from outside the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai during the terror attacks of 26/11.[3] She was the lead anchor of ETNOW before she became an entrepreneur. She also had a show on golf called "Tee Time With Shaili".[2]

She started a digital website called 'SheThePeople' in 2015, which focuses on women journalism.[4] Anand Mahindra has invested in SheThePeople.TV. It was also an official partner for government initiatives such as "Start-Up India, Stand Up India" and "Make in India".[5][6]

Awards

She won the News Television Award for the Best English Reporter across India in 2007[7] and later in 2008, her business-golf show Business on Course, won the Best Show Award.[8] In March 2010, Chopra won the Best Business Anchor award and was felicitated with FICCI's Woman Achiever Award.[9] Chopra was awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism at the Indian Express RNG Awards 2012.[10]

Bibliography
  • Chopra, Shaili (2012). Birdies in Business. The Times Group Books. ISBN 978-9382299110.
  • Chopra, Shaili (2014). The Big Connect: Politics in the Age of Social Media. Random Business. ISBN 9788184006087.
  • Chopra, Shaili (2014). When I Was 25. Random House Publishers India Private Limited. ISBN 978-8184004472.
  • Chopra, Shaili (2018). Feminist Rani. Penguin India. ISBN 978-0143442875.

References
  1. "Sawf.org". Sawf.org. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  2. www.exchange4media.com. "Anchor Shaili Chopra takes the entrepreneur road". Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  3. "TV's hits and misses of terror attacks". Hindustan Times. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  4. "SheThePeople is India's First Platform For Stories of Women". www.shethepeople.tv. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  5. PTI (23 May 2016). "Anand Mahindra invests in SheThePeople.TV". Livemint. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  6. Jagannathan, K. t (23 May 2016). "Anand Mahindra invests in women's platform SheThePeople.TV". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  7. "CNN-IBN, NDTV India win 9 out of 47 at the Indian News Television Awards, CNN-IBN wins best English news channel, Rajdeep Sardesai Newsmaker of the year, Prannoy Roy lifetime achievement, Barkha Dutt best TV news anchor". Dancewithshadows.com. Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  8. Archived 11 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Nitesh Estates launches 'Nitesh Long Island' at Bangalore". Indiainfoline.com. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  10. Shaili Chopra bags Ramnath Goenka Award | The Economic Times Video | ET Now, retrieved 18 November 2016

Interviews
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