Faye D'Souza

News anchor

Birthday October 8, 1981

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Mangalore, Karnataka, India

Age 42 years old

Nationality India

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Faye D'Souza is an Indian journalist and a television news anchor.

She worked as the executive editor of Mirror Now, which is owned by The Times Group.

She rose to fame with the show The Urban Debate on Mirror Now, where she anchored on subjects of corruption, communal violence and independent press.

D'Souza has previously worked as an anchor and editorial lead on Investor's Guide on ET Now a member of the CNBC TV18 newsroom.

2003

She then worked as a post graduate journalist at CNBC TV 18 in 2003 and later moved on to reporting about mutual funds, insurance and personal finance.

She ran three weekly shows on ET Now – Investor's Guide, All About Stocks and The Property Guide.

2017

The Times network launched the English news channel Mirror Now in April 2017.

D'Souza was made its senior editor.

The flagship show on Mirror Now, The Urban Debate was started, according to her to "shine an uncomfortable spotlight on Apathy, inefficiency and corruption which is the root cause of most problems that we face as Indians today.".

Her style of handling subjects like corruption, political opportunism, price rise and communalism over calendar 2017 has made her and her programme ‘The Urban Debate’ extremely popular with the masses.

2018

She has been awarded the RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ in 2018.

D'Souza was born in Mangalore, Karnataka.

She studied journalism at the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, and holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and English literature and a master's degree in Mass Communication.

She completed her post graduate studies from Commits in Bengaluru.

D'Souza started her journalism career with All India Radio, while she was a student.

In 2018 The RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ was awarded to Faye D’Souza.

She has been awarded for her blistering coverage of issues that touch the lives of common people.

2019

She resigned from Mirror Now's daily operations on 9 September 2019.

Vinay Tewari replaced her as the new Managing Editor at the news channel.

Her sudden resignation led to many speculating if her decision was a result of political pressure.

2020

In January 2020, Faye D'Souza teamed up with an online video platform named FireWork, to produce and release short video clips in which she speaks about the current news.