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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian journalist (born 1959)}}<br />
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| name = Nikhil Wagle<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|4|23|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Mumbai]], Maharashtra, India<br />
| occupation = Journalist, author, editor<br />
| years_active = 1977 onwards<br />
| spouse = Meena Karnik<br />
| children = 1 <br />
}}<br />
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'''Nikhil Wagle''' (born 23 April 1959) is an Indian journalist, columnist and author from [[Maharashtra]].{{cn|date=October 2024}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
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=== Print media ===<br />
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Nikhil Wagle started his media career in 1977 as a freelance reporter. He later joined ''Dinank'', a Marathi newsweekly, in Mumbai. In 1979, when the editor of ''Dinank'' resigned, the publisher asked 19-year-old Wagle to become the [[managing editor]]. Wagle later became the editor-in-chief of ''Dinank''. Subsequently, he went to [[Pune]], and joined [[Kirloskar Group]], which owned a couple of magazines at that time. However, within one month, he quit his new job and came back to Mumbai.{{cn|date=October 2024}}<br />
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In 1982, he started his own publishing house and started a new magazine called ''Akshar''. In 1983, he started a sports magazine ''Shatkar'' with [[Sandeep Patil]] as editor. In 1985, he started a film magazine ''Chanderi'', which was first edited by [[Rohini Hattangadi]] and then by [[Gautam Rajadhyaksha]]. He also published some [[Gujarati language]] magazines.{{cn|date=October 2024}}<br />
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In 1990, he established the Marathi and Hindi newspaper ''[[Mahanagar (newspaper)|Mahanagar]]''.{{cn|date=October 2024}} He also served as the editor of the Marathi version of the newspaper (''Aapla Mahanagar''). He became a noted critic of the political party [[Shiv Sena]] and its chief [[Bal Thackeray]]. For this reason, his office was attacked by the party's supporters' multiple times, beginning in 1991.<ref name="frontline_targeting">{{cite news |url=https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/article30224626.ece |title=Targeting journalists |last=Katakam |first=Anupama |work=Frontline (Volume 21 - Issue 19, Sept. 11 - 24, 2004) |publisher=The Hindu |access-date=19 March 2013}}</ref><br />
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In 1994, he criticized the Maharashtra legislators for paying fawning tributes to a deceased [[Member of Legislative Assembly|MLA]] accused of having criminal connections. When he refused to apologize to the legislators for the critical comments, he was imprisoned for a week.{{cn|date=October 2024}} In August 2004, the Shiv Sena supporters beat him up and blackened his face with engine oil for being critical of the party leader [[Narayan Rane]] (who later joined Indian National Congress).<ref name="frontline_targeting"/><br />
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Wagle also brought out more than 80 books in the capacity of a publisher.<br />
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=== TV ===<br />
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Wagle started anchoring in 1989. After doing shows for [[Doordarshan]], he turned a socio-political commentator and worked in Various private channels. He was also the anchor of the talk show ''Amne Samne''.<br />
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In mid-2000s, Wagle joined the [[Network 18]] group. He became the editor-in-chief of [[IBN-Lokmat|IBN Lokmat]], a Marathi news channel. He hosted the show ''Aajcha Sawal''. He resigned in July 2014.<ref name="indiantelevision_quits">{{Cite web |url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/people/nikhil-wagle-quits-ibn-lokmat-140721 |title=Nikhil Wagle quits IBN Lokmat |access-date=11 August 2014 |archive-date=29 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729134419/http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/people/nikhil-wagle-quits-ibn-lokmat-140721 |url-status=live }}</ref> He received the ''Sanskriti Award'' as a member of the IBN-Lokmat editorial team.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}<br />
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Soon after leaving IBN-Lokmat Wagle joined Maharashtra 1 new channel as the editor in chief. Many coworkers of Wagle left the network with him to join [[Maharashtra1]] news channel.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}} He carried his Marathi talk show Aajacha Sawal to Maaharashtra 1. In November 2016, he resigned from Maharashtra1.<ref name="Nikhil Wagle exits Maharashtra One">{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/people/nikhil-wagle-exits-maharashtra-one-161121|title=Nikhil Wagle exits 'Maharashtra One'|date=21 November 2016}}</ref><br />
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===YouTube ===<br />
Since Dec 2022, he runs a YouTube channel named [https://www.youtube.com/@nikhilwagleoriginal/featured Nikhil Wagle Original], where his videos reacting to current affairs often go viral.<br />
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== Attack on Wagle ==<br />
On February 09, 2024, Nikhil Wagle's car was attacked by [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] workers with the chants of [[Jai Shri Ram|Jai Shri Ram's]] slogans<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nikhil Wagle Attacked: NCP's Supriya Sule Tears Into BJP, Says 'Journalist's Female Colleagues Abused' |url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/nikhil-wagle-attacked-ncps-supriya-sule-tears-into-bjp-says-journalists-female-colleagues-abused |access-date=2024-02-11 |website=Free Press Journal |language=en}}</ref> for his remarks on Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]] and [[L. K. Advani|Lal Krishna Advani]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marathi |first=TV9 |date=2024-02-09 |title=पुण्यात भाजप कार्यकर्त्यांनी निखिल वागळे यांची गाडी फोडली, नेमकं काय घडतंय? |url=https://www.tv9marathi.com/maharashtra/pune/bjp-party-workers-attack-on-nikhil-wagle-car-1137065.html |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=TV9 Marathi |language=mr}}</ref><br />
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==Personal==<br />
Nikhil Wagle is married to Meena Karnik, who is also a journalist<ref name="Virani2000">{{cite book |author=Pinki Virani |title=Bitter Chocolate. Pinki Virani: Child Sexual Abuse in India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fEw6n96bjW4C&pg=PR7 |access-date=20 March 2013 |year=2000 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-029897-0 |page=7}}</ref> and media cell convener of [[Aam Aadmi Party]]{{cn|date=October 2024}} He is an atheist.{{cn|date=October 2024}}<br />
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