Aditi Kinkhabwala is an Indian-American sports reporter with National Football League (NFL) Network. She has worked as a writer with the Wall Street Journal and as a journalist with San Antonio Express-News. She currently presents “News of the day””, pre and post-game hits, feature pieces and also writes enterprise and column stories for the NFL network. Aditi is a national correspondent with the NFL Network. She presents live programs like ‘NFL Total Access’, ‘Around the NFL’ and different GameDay programs.
Aditi is very resourceful, sharp-witted, and hardworking which has contributed to her being one of the renowned journalists in America today.
Aditi Kinkhabwala Biography
Aditi Kinkhabwala was born in New York and grew up in New Jersey alongside her brother. Her parents Minesh Kinkhabwala (father) is an Engineer (Chemical) and Rita Kinkhabwala (mother) is a mathematics professor. She is an American citizen but has a mixed ancestry of Indian and American.
Her writing career started in high school where she wrote part-time for the News Tribune and Home News tribunes (both New Jersey dailies).
Aditi graduated with a distinction from Cornell University studying American Studies. Aditi is always grateful for how she was raised. Their parents are very supportive of her and her brother who is into hedge funds.
She married her longtime boyfriend (Matt Wirginis) in May 2013 and they have a son (Nico) together.
Career
Her career as a sports reporter kicked off in 2002 when she started working with ‘Bergen Record’. She covered for “Rutgers football, women’s and men’s basketball and also wrote for the “Mets” and “Yankees”.
Aditi proceeded to work as a writer for ‘Wall Street Journal’ and then reported for the ‘New York Giants’ including the “Super Bowl XLVI”.
Her career with NFL started in May 2012 when she had to move to Pittsburgh. The NFL deploys their staff to various regions as they deem fit. Aditi confesses to traveling to 18 different cities during her first year on the job.
Aditi also shares during an interview that she had different career goals while growing up. Initially, she wanted to pitch for the Yankees. Then she wanted to be a teacher. When she got into college she wanted to be a lawyer. Her father who wanted to see her achieve her life goals kept asking her when she was going to apply to get into law school. It took him 7 years into her writing career before he stopped asking her.
Asides writing, Aditi enjoys reading.
Marriage
Aditi Kinkhabwala and her now-husband Matt Wirginis dated for a long time before finally getting engaged in 2012. The duo tied the knot on the 11th of May 2013 in a very colorful wedding ceremony. They had a big dance party according to Indian tradition before their wedding. Their friends and family came together to make the party a success. They went ahead to exchange vows according to Indian culture in Princeton, New Jersey.
Matt Wirginis works as a Sales Engineer with “Measurement Instruments”.
The couple now have a son together (Nico). Aditi often shares pictures of their adorable son on her social media pages. Family is important to her and this is obvious from how she sometimes takes her son with her to work and generally makes out time to spend quality time with him.
It is worth mentioning that the couple seems to be enjoying their marriage. Before and after the wedding, they have not been involved in any form of scandal about divorce or extramarital affairs. They have a close-knit family.
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Salary and Net Worth
Aditi is not prone to showing off on social media. She prefers and leads a simple life. While her actual salary is unknown, sports reporters of her caliber earn about $34,870 per annum so one can assume that her earnings are around this range.
Aditi is very hardworking and has multiple sources of income. Besides her salary as a sports reporter, Aditi continues to write columns and enterprise stories for different news outlets. Her net worth is estimated to be about $1 million.
Aditi is very thorough when it comes to her work. She believes and lives by the tenet “it’s more important to be right than first” as shared with her by her “Wall Street” editor.
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