Indira Lakshmanan joins U.S. News & World Report to start Ideas & Opinions platform
U.S. News & World Report announced that Indira Lakshmanan has joined the company to start an Ideas & Opinions platform. In this newly created role, Lakshmanan will be responsible for developing and overseeing content that provides perspective, insight and thought leadership around current issues and events.
An award-winning editor, columnist and correspondent in Washington, D.C., for the last 16 years, Lakshmanan’s career, states a release, has taken her to more than 80 countries across six continents, where she has reported for print, digital and broadcast media. As an international and Washington correspondent for The Boston Globe and Bloomberg News, she traveled with presidents and secretaries of state, interviewing and profiling newsmakers from Hillary Clinton to Fidel Castro. She has covered pivotal world events, from the fall of the Taliban and the SARS epidemic in China to the Iran nuclear talks, and her reporting has shined a light on human rights and environmental injustices across Asia and Latin America. She’s also been a Washington columnist for the The Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune.
Most recently, Lakshmanan led the global enterprise team at the Associated Press, overseeing special projects. Previously, she was National Geographic’s senior executive editor and vice president for news and features.
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