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. 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 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 postgraduate studies at Commits in Bengaluru. D'Souza started her journalism career with All India Radio as a student.
The Times network launched the English news channel Mirror Now in April 2017. D'Souza was made its senior editor. 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. Her style of handling corruption, political opportunism, price rise, and communalism over calendar 2017 has made her and her program ‘The Urban Debate’ extremely popular with the masses.
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.
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