Bobby Ghosh named TIME International editor
Ghosh was appointed yesterday as the first non-American world editor in TIME's history.
"It gives me great pleasure to announce that Bobby Ghosh is our new international editor. Bobby, quite simply, is a magnificent journalist who has done the highest level of work that one can aspire to in our profession," Martha Nelson, editor-in-chief, and Rick Stengel, Managing Editor, said in a staff announcement.
"Bobby, whose recent India stories for TIME have included profiles of cricket god Sachin Tendulkar; Bollywood star Aamir Khan and world chess champ Vishwanathan Anand, replaces Jim Frederick, who now becomes a contributing editor," they said.
Bobby joined TIME in 1998 after ten years as a journalist in India and two on the staff of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong.
"He became a senior editor at TIME Asia, where he wrote a weekly TIME.com column called Sub continental Drift. Bobby then moved to London to become a senior editor at TIME Europe and in 2007, he became the first non-American World editor in TIME's history," they wrote in the email.
Nelson and Stengel said during his five years as the Time Baghdad bureau chief throughout the worst of the Iraq war, Bobby wrote two of the most unforgettable cover stories: Life in Hell, and Sunnis vs. Shi'ites.
"He was not only fearless in his work in Iraq but he was the guardian of all who worked for us in Baghdad,"
