|
|
SANDEEP JUNNARKAR is the New York Bureau Chief for the leading technology newsite, CNET News.com. He began at News.com in 1998 as a general assignment reporter and has since specialized at investigating the pitfalls the technology used in various industries.
Prior to News.com, Sandeep was a breaking news editor for the New York Times on the Web. He was on the founding team of editors and producers who first brought the newspaper--known for its motto "All the News that's Fit to Print"-onto the Internet. While at the Times, his articles explored the impact of technology on the art of medicine.
|
|
Sandeep graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 1994. Trying to get as much value from expensive year at this Ivy institution, he studied radio and television broadcasting as well as print.
He received a Bacherlor's degree in Social Science with an empahsis on Pyschology from the University of Calirfornia at Berkeley in 1988.
He hass won numerous awards for his work, including a prestigious Online Journalism Award, several awards from the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), and from the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California chapter.
Before becoming a journalist, Sandeep was a mental health worker in Napa, Oakland and Berkeley, California.
Sandeep lives in New York with his wife, Shobana and two daughters, Krithi and Sulekha. His wife is a classical Indian dancer, who in recent years has worked with several contemporary dance companies incorporating Indian dance forms.
The following is a partial list of his award-winning work:
Cracking the Nest Egg, CNET News.com, April 30, 2002, which won a Online Journalism Award.
A Bitter Pill: The Online Health Industry Tries to Cheat Death, CNET News.com, September 26, 2001, winner of a SAJA award.
Doctors Face Newly Knowledgeable Patients as Consumers Learn on the Net, The New York Times on the Web, November 19, 1997, which also won a SAJA award.
Sandeep is a member of SAJA and the Investigative
Reporters and Editors Association