Venu Balakrishnan Reporter TV News Channel Managing Editor - Profile

Name : Venu Balakrishnan
Position : Managing editor and news reader of Reporter news channel
Wife : Vandana, news reader in Asianet

Venu Balakrishnan is a very well known media personality and is considered as one of the best news readers in Kerala. He began his career as a news reader in Asianet, a popular channel in Kerala and later moved on to Manorama News. Venu has bagged an award for best news reader at The Fraternity for Arts and Media Entertainment (Frame) Media Gallup poll Award 2008. He has also received another award as the best news presenter at the Malayalam Television Viewer's Association (Drisya Television Awards). Currently, he has resigned from Manorama and has joined with MV Nikesh Kumar as the news reader and the Managing editor of a new Malayalam news channel called Reporter which will be launched on May 11th 2011. He will receive a huge salary of 65000 from the Reporter channel.

While working with Asianet, Venu Balakrishnan was designated as the chief sub-editor of the channel. After moving to Manorama News channel, he became the Principal Correspondent for Manorama News. Venu became very popular with programs like News Hour in Asianet and Counterpoint in Manorama News. Along with Nikesh Kumar, Venu Balakrishnan has always come in the top 5 news readers list in many national polls. The duo of Nikesh Kumar and Venu Balakrishnan is creating waves among the people of south India and everyone is expecting this collaboration to bring the Reporter TV news channel to a huge success. Venu Balakrishnan became famous through his sharp and intelligent questions when the political issues were discussed in the Prime Time Bulletin of Asianet.