Shibani Sona Joshi (born October 4, 1975) is a

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for the

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Career

Joshi began her

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career as a news production assistant at

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where she contributed to

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''Moneyline'' and

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''Money Morning''.Fox Business Biography
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for Reuters Television and ''Times Now'', the joint venture news channel with

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. Joshi served as a reporter covering breaking news for

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. Joshi has also served as the host of ImagineAsian TV's ''The Pulse''

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, contributed to ABCNews.com and ''

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'' covering technology and business stories, and was a co-host of American Desi's ''Point of View''

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. From 2004 to 2006, Joshi held the position of Senior Manager in Strategy and Business Development at

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/ABC Media Networks where she worked on the launch of ABC News Now. She has been a guest on the

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's late-night satire show ''

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''. Joshi now runs her own website that reports on matters of high technology.

Germany and solar power

Joshi is known for asserting that Germany's advantage over the US in the production of solar power stems from the additional sunlight Germany receives. In response, Slate.com's Will Oremus noted, "virtually the entirety of the continental United States gets more sun than even the sunniest part of Germany" Joshi retracted her statement and restated " fact, the difference come down more to subsidies and political priorities and has nothing to with sunshine."

Family

Joshi is a native of

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. Both of her parents are

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s from India. Her father, Dileep Joshi, is a retired vice president for

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and

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at Lucent Technologies. Her mother, Meghana Joshi, was formerly an

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manager in

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at Johnson Controls, Inc. Joshi was married to Rahul Advani, a principal at

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, but the couple later divorced.

External links

FoxBusiness.com bio

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Joshi, Shibani Living people American women journalists American women writers of Indian descent Fox Business people American Hindus University of Oklahoma alumni Harvard Business School alumni 1975 births Writers from Oklahoma City 21st-century American women