The Wire appoints veteran journalist Seema Chishti as editor

The Wire has appointed veteran journalist Seema Chishti as editor. She will be responsible for The Wire's English, Hindi, and Urdu editions and answerable to the Editorial Board, which is made up of the three Founding Editors. Their main responsibility will be to establish The Wire's overall editorial direction and policy, as well as to increase its audience and ensure its financial viability.

She has decades of experience as journalist, author, researcher, educator, presenter, and editor. Beginning with the reforms of 1990 and the destruction of the Babri Masjid, which she covered for Hindustan Times Television, a video magazine that existed before news television channels in India, she has reported and written extensively on almost all the significant issues of the past three decades.

She has most recently been writing independently and publishing in both domestic and foreign media. She also helped found the newsletter The India Cable. She had been employed by The Indian Express in a variety of roles for 14 years prior to that, including as Resident Editor, Delhi, before leaving as Deputy Editor in 2020.

Before joining The Indian Express, Chishti spent a number of years as the Hindi Editor and Head of the Delhi Bureau at the BBC. Between 1994 and 1998, she also worked as a producer and then an anchor for a daily Hindi primetime newscast, initially from London and then from New Delhi.