Anshuman Tiwari


Anshuman Tiwari is an editor of India Today at India Today Group in New Delhi. He is a former Chief of National Bureau and Associate Editor of Dainik Jagran. He is Chevening Fellow of South Asia Journalism Program 2017.
He has also been a fellow of the International Center for Journalists, UK financial sector study, European Union and US International Visitor Program. He has worked with Financial Times London and Dayton News Chronicle, Ohio as a part of international training.
He is an accomplished multimedia economic/political journalist, analyst, researcher and columnist in English and Hindi languages with 25 years of media experience in various capacities across leading Hindi dailies, digital news ventures and magazine. He has been named one of the top 50 most prominent Hindi journalists in India.
On 30 September 2017, his blog Arthaat was listed in the directory of "Best Hindi Blog". which is released by ITB. In 2017, it was re-listed as best Hindi blog for the third time.

Life and career

Anshuman Tiwari was born on 25 March 1974 in Uttar Pradesh, India. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Hindi/English literature, Geography in 1988 from Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, and got a master's degree as Master of Arts, Geography and Hindi Literature from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in 1990 with a professional degree in Master's Diploma in Mass communication and Journalism in 1991 from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kanpur.
He joined the most prestigious and largest news magazine, India Today, Aaj Tak Group as an editor in New Delhi, India. Previously, he was Chief of National Bureau / Chief of Bureaus / Group Input Head and Associate Editor for Dainik Jagran from 2008 to 2013. He led www.money.bhaskar.com as an editor and Vertical Head.
He is a regular columnist for the daily news portal Daliyo in English language. As a columnist in Hindi language he wrote in weekly column Artharth/Arthaat, published in Dainik Jagran for 15 years. It is now published in a weekly feature of India Today.
He is well known as an economic analyst and journalist. He started his career as stock market correspondent at Kanpur in the early 90s. He covered various economic ministries and reported on macroeconomic, trade and financial markets in varied templates during the length of his career from correspondent to editor.
He is a distinguished investigative journalist with several far-reaching news scoops to his credit, including a three years long exposé of Delhi CWG Commonwealth Games 2012 in the position of Chief of National Bureau – Dainik Jagran.
In digital journalism, he has created and successfully established an innovative and exclusive multilingual digital first content vertical moneybhaskar.com for Danik Bhaskar Group, DB Corp. It is the largest Hindi business portal and offers guidance, utility and wisdom based jargon free economic-business and investment content to aspiring readers in Hindi. Also he initiated, planned and successfully executed the digital transition of Dainik Jagran.
He is a researcher and analyst, and has presented quite a few papers at national and global fora. He regularly participates in academic workshops and seminars.
On 3 November 2018, he published a book called Laxminama in New Delhi, India at Indira Gandhi National Center for the Art. The book is about monks, merchants, money, and mantra. He launched this book to make people aware of the connection of economy with religion.

Honours, awards and accolades