New Delhi: Tunku Varadarajan, writer-at-large for the Daily Beast website and an alumnus of Forbes, has been appointed Newsweek's editor of international editions, the editor of the news weekly announced on Tuesday.
Varadrajan, 48, joined the Daily Beast from Forbes where he was executive editor of opinion. He has worked as assistant managing editor at the Wall Street Journal and bureau chief in New York and Madrid for the Times of London.
"My news: Looks like I'll be editing Newsweek International http://on.wsj.com/eQNWYK (Time for a cricket column?)", Varadarajan posted on Wednesday on Twitter.
He has been a clinical professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with a law degree in 1984, the Wall Street Journal reported.
He is also a Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
The Daily Beast is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. The Daily Beast was launched in 2008 and in November, 2010 it announced a merger deal with the Newsweek. Brown became the editor of Newsweek after the merger with Daily Beast website.
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