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Anupreeta Das

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ113584010
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Anupreeta Das is an Indian-American journalist and author. She works at The New York Times based out of New Delhi as a South Asia correspondent.

She was previously the finance editor of The Times based in New York. Before that, she worked at The Wall Street Journal as a Deputy Business Editor and reporter.

Education

Das has a master's degree in journalism from Boston University and a master's degree in International Relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Career

She was a freelance writer with the Christian Science Monitor and The Boston Globe before joining Reuters.

At the Journal, she co-authored articles on family offices, which are the "private investment firms of the extremely wealthy."

She joined The New York Times as a Finance Editor in 2020.

In 2024, she wrote about the wedding of Anant Ambani, the younger son of Mukesh Ambani.

Das is the author of the book Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World.

Felix Salmon reviewed the book for The Washington Post.

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The public source identifies “Anupreeta Das” as journalist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Anupreeta and journalist.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2024—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Anupreeta and journalist providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q113584010. VIAF identifies the subject as 69171395261030520289. The Library of Congress control number is n2024020550. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from Anupreeta Das” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.