Narasimhan Ram
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Narasimhan Ram (born May 4, 1945), is an Indian journalist, who is Editor-in-chief of The Hindu since June 27, 2003. Ram also heads the other publications of The Hindu Group, Frontline, The Hindu Business Line and Sportstar.
He graduated from Loyola College, Chennai in arts in 1964, went on to get a masters degree in arts from Presidency College, Chennai in 1966 and later a M.S. in comparative journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Beginning his career in The Hindu as an Associate Editor in 1977, he was made the Washington Correspondent in 1980. N Ram's association with Frontline, dates back to 1984, when the magazine was started.
A Padma Bhushan awardee, Ram has achieved several accolades such as, Asian Investigative Journalist of the Year (1990) Award conferred by the Press Foundation of Asia at the "One Asia Assembly", Manila, 1990 for "the courage and diligence which inspired him and his newspaper to continue searching for the truth in the now famous Bofors Case, the disciplined application of his journalistic idealism and the impact of his revelations on the Indian political scene"; B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1989, shared with Chitra Subramaniam; National Citizen’s Award, 1995, New Delhi (with the citation reading "for his brave and fearless writings in the interest of the nation") and XLRI’s First JRD Tata Award for Business Ethics, awarded at this management institute’s 46th Annual Convocation at Jamshedpur on March 23, 2002 for "following rigorously the canons of journalism and ethics" and making "this ethics part of a corporate philosophy"[1][citation needed].Prior to his present position he was Associate Editor until 1991 and then Editor of Frontline and Sportstar between 1991 and 2003. As a journalist & an editor he has bucked the trend by not giving in to Page 3 culture & trivialising news. He was also a strong opponent of advertorial (selling editorial space for the sake of advertising) in spite of the commercial success achieved by The Times of India, the largest English daily in India. He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1990 by the President of India for his work in Journalism. Other honours bestowed on him, include the Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, Freedom of Information Award, Asian Investigative Journalist of the year 1990 and the National Citizen's Award 1995. "Sri Lanka Ratna", the highest honour by Sri Lankan Government was conferred on him in 2005.
He is well known for his leftist leanings and anti-Hinduism slant in his views.
