Even as a question mark hangs over the heads of many editors and journalists, H.R. Ranganath, the chairman and managing director of the newly launched Kannada news channel, Public TV, has declared his assets and liabilities on live television, with his tax consultant sitting alongside him and reading out the list. Ranganath—former editor of the…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
N. Ram, Arnab Goswami crash out of power list
Despite stitching up one of the biggest media deals in recent times, TV18’s Raghav Bahl is among four media persons who have crashed out of the Indian Express list of the 100 most powerful people in the year of the lord 2012. N. Ram, the former editor-in-chief of The Hindu (No. 73 in last year’s list)…
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Three reasons Arnab Goswami should be PM
Columnist G. Sampath on Times Now‘s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in DNA: # “Arnab Goswami is the only person in the country to whom every Indian is answerable. # “Our politicians, at any rate, hold him in higher regard than Parliament. No matter how provocative the questions posed to them, they won’t dream of staging a…
Jug Suraiya on The Hindu-TOI war of ads
Jug Suraiya captures the ad war between The Hindu and The Times of India, through the mouths of two newspaper readers, M/s Gup and Shup: Shup: Boring! The Hindu boring? Listen, buddy, let me wisen you up…. What The Hindu has is gravitas. In fact, it’s got gravitas with a capital G. Gup: Gravitas? Isn’t…
Four journalists want to be info commissioners
Ritu Sarin reports in today’s Indian Express that at least four journalists—Satya Prakash, Law Kumar Mishra, Prakash N Bhargava and Sudhanshu Ranjan—are among the 214 people who have applied for the posts of information commissioners at the central information commission (CIC). Read the full story: All want jobs in CIC
Entries invited for Ramnath Goenka Awards, 2010
The Ramnath Goenka memorial foundation is inviting entries for the 2010 Ramnath Goenka excellence in journalism awards. Email rngf [at] expressindia [dot] com for further details. The last date for entries is 16 April 2012.
EPW on the RIL-ETV-TV18 deal-within-a-deal
In the latest issue of the Economic & Political Weekly, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Subi Chaturvedi weigh in on the nearly forgotten RIL-ETV-TV18 deal, which gives India’s biggest business house control over India’s biggest business news channel, a clutch of news channels, online properties and magazines: “If international best practices are to be followed, cross-media…
This is the chief minister, and here’s the news
Karnataka chief minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda inaugurates the Kannada news channel, Public TV, in Bangalore on Sunday by reading a news item from a laptop computer. The channel is headed by H.R. Ranganath, the son of a southern railway employee in Mysore, who rose to be editor of Kannada Prabha and Suvarna News. Photograph: Karnataka Photo News Also read: Is there space for another…
TOI bossman Samir Jain wants a Man Friday
Samir Jain, the scarily reclusive bossman of The Times of India group—neither seen nor heard by lesser mortals in the newsroom—makes a rare appearance on the pages of the paper, through an advertisement for an executive secretary, with a copy of his visiting card. Also read: When Samir Jain served a thali Jug Suraiya on…
Porngate: How BJP MLA blacked out TV, papers
A battle royale has broken out between the two leading Kannada news channels over who broke the porn video scandal, involving ministers in the BJP’s “gateway to the south”, Karnataka. Market leader TV9 ran a news item on its 9 pm primetime news show on Wednesday, complete with a visual of its head honcho, Mahendra…
A Spanish hand behind a Malayalam newspaper
The Malayalam daily Malayala Manorama has unveiled a new look. The redesign has been done by Errea Commuications, the design house of the Spanish designer Javier Errea. Image: courtesy Newspaper Design Also read: Another boilerplate redesign from Mario Garcia Also read: In its golden jubilee year, ET gets a redesign Good heavens, another Mario Garcia…
TOI drags Hindu’s new editor, CEO into ad war
The Times of India carries this front page advertisement in its Madras edition today, in response to The Hindu‘s video campaign which was a response to The Times‘ insinuation in an earlier TVC that the “Mount Road Mahavishnu ” put readers to sleep. Also read: Good morning, it’s time to go back to bed How Hindu…
TOI readers affluent, not middle class. Mind it.
R. Sukumar, the editor of the business daily Mint, wrote an article recently on the Hindu-Times of India ad war, saying: “The Times of India has, over the past few years, become a good read … perhaps, driven by the realization that Page 1 of the country’s most-read English newspaper needs to reflect the sentiments…
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