Mehta has been Managing Editor of India Today's English news channel (2013–14), Deputy News Editor and prime-time anchor with Times Now. and a political correspondent and anchor with NDTV. For NDTV, he covered the 2002 Gujarat violence and subsequent state assembly elections, the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, the assassination of the royal family in Kathmandu and several Indian state elections including Chhattisgarh and Punjab.