CNBC has hired Ritika Gupta as UK reporter, based in London.
Gupta will join international business day programs and report across all CNBC platforms. Gupta will focus on the key moments directly generating enterprise business stories and as well as compelling topics from The City of London and around the United Kingdom.
“I’m delighted to welcome Ritika to our international newsroom,” said Leonie Kidd, head of TV News for Europe and the Middle East, in a statement. “With a distinguished career in journalism, Ritika will play a key role in delivering incisive, on-the-ground reporting that offers our global audience authoritative insight into the UK market.”
Gupta has been North America business correspondent and anchor at the BBC, based in New York. Gupta began her career as an on-air reporter and producer for Bloomberg Television in London and New York. She also worked for the Bloomberg Markets Live Blog, writing commentary on global markets, trends, and macroeconomic analysis.
She graduated from University College London with a bachelor’s degree in economics, and obtained her master’s degree in broadcast journalism from City University London.
