Rohit Vyas
Rohit Vyas is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and broadcast journalist who has focused on the South Asian diaspora in North America and international affairs. He has been active since 1979 and is one of the longest-serving Indian American journalists. He studied at the University of Delhi and American University and is a longtime member of the United Nations Correspondents Association.
From 1993 to 2019, he served as news director and anchor for TV Asia, appointed by Amitabh Bachchan, and led English nightly news plus two interview programs, Between the Lines and Face to Face. Before TV Asia, he led Vision of Asia News (1987-1993) and held editor roles at News India (1977-1979) and India Abroad (1979-1982); he then founded International Observer in 1982 to cover diplomacy and the United Nations.
In 2025 he earned two Emmy nominations for DESTINATION OAK TREE ROAD, a PBS documentary about Oak Tree Road in New Jersey and the Indian/South Asian immigrant community’s impact there.
His career also includes White House media delegation work in 2000 during President Clinton’s visit and, in 1994, becoming the first American journalist to join an Indian prime minister’s US media delegation. He has conducted many high-profile interviews and taken on public service roles: NYT Asian American advisory group (1993-1995) and New Jersey Governor Whitman’s Asian American Pacific Advisory Council (1994-2001). He moderated New Jersey’s first Asian American gubernatorial debate in 2001 and has been MC for major Indian American events, including the India Day Parade in NYC for 21 years.
He has received honors from the New Jersey State Assembly, New York City, Nassau County, NFIA and FIA, and lifetime achievement awards from GOPIO and the Indo-American Press Club. He is married to Isha Vyas and has two children.
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