Archana Shukla
Associate Editor and Bureau Chief for CNBCTV18
Archana works as Associate Editor and Bureau Chief at CNBC TV18.
She has nearly 15 years experience in covering pharma, healthcare and the rural economy.
Archana travels extensively to the interiors of the country to report the ground realities.
She has been instrumental in bringing original stories and reports on rural healthcare, agrarian crisis, droughts, rural development and consumption cycles and has produced many shows under the banners such as "What's Ailing Rural India", "Budget Caravan", "Restarting India".
As a seasoned healthcare reporter, she has also front ended the coverage of the COVID19 pandemic.
She leads the reporting teams across Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chennai bureaus and drives the content across varied beats and sectors, stories from the financial world and stories impacting you and me.
Her comprehensive rural and healthcare coverage has received many awards, most prominent being the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in 'Business & Economics' category for the year 2015.
She has also received the Exchange4Media News Broadcast Award (ENBA) 2015 for her continuing and comprehensive coverage of rural issues through 2015.
At Mumbai Press Club's RedInk Awards 2017, Archana bagged two awards - one in the Healthcare category for her report on drug abused Punjab and second for her report on naxal affected Bastar economy in the Business reporting category.
In 2018 she won the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award and represented India in a 8 day study seminar administered by Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York.
Her on-ground investigative report on the scam in MNREGA scheme in Rajasthan won her the Mumbai Press Club's RedInk Awards 2019.
Archana has moderated multiple panel discussions across sectors at premier events like BioAsia, CPHI, CII forums.
Her previous assignments were with NDTV Profit, Diligent Media Corporation (DNA) and Infomedia.
Archana is a Microbiology graduate from Mumbai University and has a Masters degree in Journalism from Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai..
