<p>Noted journalist Aparisim 'Bobby Bobby Ghosh, an Indian national, has been named the editor of Time International.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Bobby, quite simply, is a magnificent journalist who has done the highest level of work that one can aspire to in our profession," the Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson and Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel told staffers in an announcement Friday.<br /><br />Currently Time's Deputy International Editor, Ghosh takes over from Jim Frederick, who is vacating the position "to move on to other challenges," the memo said.<br /><br />"The breadth of his interests and the depth of his expertise is reflected in a sampling of his recent international covers, from soccer star Leo Messi to Bollywood icon Aamir Khan to a profile of Egyptian president Mohamad Morsi," it said.<br /><br />The first non-American to be named World Editor in Time's more than 80 year history, Ghosh started his career at the Deccan Chronicle, in Visakhapatnam; then went to work in Business Standard in Kolkata and BusinessWorld in Mumbai and Delhi.<br /><br />His recent India stories for Time have included profiles of cricket god Sachin Tendulkar, Bollywood star Aamir Khan and world chess champ Vishy Anand.<br /><br />During his five years as Time Baghdad bureau chief throughout the worst of the Iraq war, Ghosh "wrote two of our most unforgettable cover stories: Life in Hell, and Sunnis vs. Shi'ites," the memo read. <br /><br />"He was not only fearless in his work in Iraq but he was the guardian of all who worked for us in Baghdad." <br /><br />Ghosh joined Time in 1998 after ten years as a journalist in India and two on the staff of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong. He became a senior editor at Time Asia, where he wrote a weekly Time.com column called Subcontinental Drift.<br /><br />Ghosh then moved to London to become a senior editor at Europe and in 2007, he became the first non-American World editor in Time 's history, the memo noted.<br /></p>
<p>Noted journalist Aparisim 'Bobby Bobby Ghosh, an Indian national, has been named the editor of Time International.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"Bobby, quite simply, is a magnificent journalist who has done the highest level of work that one can aspire to in our profession," the Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Martha Nelson and Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel told staffers in an announcement Friday.<br /><br />Currently Time's Deputy International Editor, Ghosh takes over from Jim Frederick, who is vacating the position "to move on to other challenges," the memo said.<br /><br />"The breadth of his interests and the depth of his expertise is reflected in a sampling of his recent international covers, from soccer star Leo Messi to Bollywood icon Aamir Khan to a profile of Egyptian president Mohamad Morsi," it said.<br /><br />The first non-American to be named World Editor in Time's more than 80 year history, Ghosh started his career at the Deccan Chronicle, in Visakhapatnam; then went to work in Business Standard in Kolkata and BusinessWorld in Mumbai and Delhi.<br /><br />His recent India stories for Time have included profiles of cricket god Sachin Tendulkar, Bollywood star Aamir Khan and world chess champ Vishy Anand.<br /><br />During his five years as Time Baghdad bureau chief throughout the worst of the Iraq war, Ghosh "wrote two of our most unforgettable cover stories: Life in Hell, and Sunnis vs. Shi'ites," the memo read. <br /><br />"He was not only fearless in his work in Iraq but he was the guardian of all who worked for us in Baghdad." <br /><br />Ghosh joined Time in 1998 after ten years as a journalist in India and two on the staff of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong. He became a senior editor at Time Asia, where he wrote a weekly Time.com column called Subcontinental Drift.<br /><br />Ghosh then moved to London to become a senior editor at Europe and in 2007, he became the first non-American World editor in Time 's history, the memo noted.<br /></p>