Sayed Mustafa Kazemi became the Afghanistan correspondent for the channel in February 2020. The former news anchor of Republic TV, Akanksha Swarup, joined WION in 2018, becoming one of the channel's leading faces. Sumit Chaturvedi, who was previously with ET Now and CNBC TV18, currently looks after the business news content and conducts morning and evening business shows called "WALLET". Sidhant Sibal of DD News joined the organisation on 1 April 2018. Palki Sharma Upadhyay hosts a special segment "Gravitas" which airs Monday to friday at 9 PM to 10 PM IST. The current team includes Sudhir Chaudhary as editor-in-chief, and former senior editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay as executive editor. Known journalists included Saad Hammadi, Bangladesh bureau chief and former correspondent for The Guardian, Archith Seshadri, former CNN anchor, and Tathagata Bhattacharya, former editor of the CNN web edition. The founding team included Rohit Gandhi and Leon Desai as editor-in-chief, Mandy Clark, former CBS correspondent, and Mithaq Kazimi, American media executive, as managing producers respectively.
WION is India's first privately owned international news channel. The television channel began airing on 15 August 2016. Its website was launched in many countries as a free-to-air satellite service on 15 June 2016. According to news magazine The Week, the channel "covers global news and current affairs from an Indian perspective, à la CNN and Al Jazeera".
It is owned by the Essel Group and is part of the Zee Media network of channels. The World is One News ( WION) is an Indian multinational English language news channel headquartered in New Delhi. (downscaled to 4:3 576i for the SDTV feed) For the airport in Indonesia, see Raden Sadjad Airport. For the radio station in Michigan, see WION (AM).