MUMBAI: Radhakrishnan Nair has been elevated as the managing editor of CNN-IBN. He will fill in the post left vacant by Vinay Tewari a few days ago.

Nair has a career spanning 25 years in the field. He started off with UNI in Kerala. His television stint began in 1995 with TV18, then moved to CNBC-TV18 and has been with CNN-IBN since 2005.

Until now, he was news director for the English news channel. Nair is a chemistry graduate and a gold medalist in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Journalism in Trivandrum and has done Masters in Communication and Journalism from Kerala University.

Nair has spent 12 years with TV18 producing various business shows and leading the input-output desk at CNBC. He has also produced programmes for DD, BBC and Sony as well as Asia’s first business channel ABNI.