Vishweshwar Bhat

Who is Vishweshwar Bhat?

Vishweshwar Bhat is the editor of Kannada Prabha newspapers and the television channel Suvarna News. Previously he was the editor of Vijaya Karnataka. Hails from Murur, North Canara district of Karnataka, is a postgraduate in Geology and a goldmedalist in MA journalism. Had a brief stint as Assistant professor at Asian School of Journalism and also officer on special duty to Ananth Kumar, Minister of Tourism and culture in Vajpayee government.

In early 2011, Bhat became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kannada Prabha, where he had previously served for four years as sub-editor. Bhat had resigned from VK at the end of 2010, stating he intended to pursue higher studies, and had started a blog.

In August 2012 Bhat was allegedly one of the journalists who was being targeted by terror suspects for harbouring anti-Islamic sentiments.