Daily Archives: 17 February 2010

When a politician weds a journalist, it’s news

Not too many Indian politicians have a good word about journalism or journalists, but at least one of them, Congressman Jitin Prasada will (hopefully) do so from today. The 36-year-old junior minister for petroleum and natural gas married television journalist Neha Seth in New Delhi on February 16. Prasada, 36, belongs to the Kapurthala royal…

It’s all happening in the newsmagazine space

The latest advertising campaign of the newsweekly The Week targetting Outlook*. The Cochin-based Week is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), while the Delhi-based Outlook along with market leader India Today are not. So The Week used figures filed by Outlook before the registrar of newspapers (RNI) for the ammunition for the…