Mark Tully, Satish Jacob
Sir William Mark Tully is a veteran journalist who worked with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and held the position of Bureau Chief of BBC, New Delhi, for twenty years. Throughout his career he has reported on some of the most important events of the last century such as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Operation Blue Star, and the Babri Masjid demolition. He resigned from his position in BBC in 1994 and has since worked as a freelance journalist based out of New Delhi. He has also authored nine books. He was knighted in 2002, receiving a KBE from the British government and, in 2005, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. You can read more about him here and here.
Satish Jacob began his journalistic career with The Statesman, worked in Ethiopia for eight years, and joined the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as Mark Tully’s assistant in 1978. He has covered the Biafra War, the Middle East War and, with Tully, Mrs Gandhi’s assassination and the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster. Jacob also covered the Iraq War and the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein government, about which he wrote a book (available here). He retired as Deputy Bureau Chief of the BBC in Delhi after 26 years of service. See more of his work here.
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