Anand Naidoo is a South African television anchor and correspondent for CGTN America based in

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Career

Naidoo began his career as a newspaper journalist on '' The Rand Daily Mail'' in Johannesburg. He has also worked as a news editor on Radio 702, a Johannesburg independent radio station and a presenter on the South African cable station, M-Net. Naidoo was the evening news anchor for the South African Broadcasting Corp. in

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. He began his broadcast career in

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, where he worked as a field producer for Belgian television as well as a producer and anchor for the Belgian Radio World Service. Naidoo hosts CGTN America's daily political talk show, ''The Heat''. He joined CGTN America in October 2012 after six years as an anchor for

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, and ten years at CNN International's World News anchor prior.

Awards and honours

Naidoo is the recipient of the George Peabody award for coverage of

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and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the tsunami disaster in South East Asia. In April 2015, he was awarded the Bronze World Medal for Best News Anchor at the New York Festivals International TV and Film Awards. He was awarded the Bronze Medal again for Best News Anchor at the New York Festivals TV & Film awards in April 2018 for his interview with John Nixon, the CIA agent who interrogated

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shortly after the Iraqi leader was captured by US forces. Naidoo received the New York Telly Award in May 2023 for his reporting on a CGTN America network series on climate change.

References

Living people South African television journalists South African people of Indian descent South African expatriates in the United States South African expatriates in Belgium Rhodes University alumni CNN people Al Jazeera people George Peabody Medal winners Year of birth missing (living people) China Global Television Network people CCTV newsreaders and journalists {{SouthAfrica-bio-stub