Anushka Asthana
Anushka Asthana (born 1980) is a British Indian journalist and television presenter. She is a co-presenter of the ITV political discussion series "Peston". Since 2018 she has presented "The Guardian"'s daily podcast "Today in Focus" and since 2019 she has served as "The Guardian"s editor-at-large. She was previously the joint political editor of "The Guardian" from 2016 to 2018. Early life. Asthana was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and raised in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester. Her parents, both doctors, moved to the United Kingdom from New Delhi, India in the 1970s. Asthana attended the private school  Manchester High School for Girls and read economics at St John's College, Cambridge. Career. Asthana joined "The Observer" as a general reporter in 2003 and spent several months at "The Washington Post" in 2006. Later she was a political correspondent for "The Times" before beginning to work for Sky News in 2013 as a political correspondent. In succession to Patrick Wintour, Asthana was appointed in December 2015 as the joint political editor of "The Guardian", in a job share arrangement with Heather Stewart which began in early 2016. From 23 April 2017, Asthana covered the maternity leave of Allegra  Stratton as the co-presenter of "Peston on Sunday". Since September 2018, Asthana has co-presented ITV's Wednesday night flagship politics discussion programme "Peston". That year she decided to leave her role as the joint political editor of "The Guardian" to present its new daily podcast "Today in Focus". On 3 December 2019 it was announced that she had been appointed editor-at-large of "The Guardian", replacing Gary Younge. On 23 March 2021 Asthana announced she would be leaving "Today In Focus" to join "ITV News" as deputy political editor to Robert Peston in the summer. Anushka Asthana