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BBC World to cover UK general elections live
MUMBAI: BBC World will be providing live coverage of this year’s UK Elections in BBC News Special: UK Elections 2005, from 2:25 pm to 1:30 pm on Friday 6 May.
BBC World’s Nik Gowing and David Eades will present the significant election results live throughout the night, backed up by in-depth analysis and interviews in the studio and from key locations around the UK. The latest state-of-the-art graphics will help take viewers through the key constituency results, as well as explore projections for the night as a whole.
Senior politicians and former ministers, as well as political journalists and analysts will be on hand to assess trends and developments hour by hour. BBC World will be getting reaction from all the main UK political parties, as well as looking at the policy implications for the next five years, particularly in terms of Britain’s relations with the United States and Europe, informs an official release.
BBC World News head says: “There is a great deal of interest internationally in British elections. With minute-by-minute results, we aim to offer viewers abroad an even more comprehensive service than four years ago. The economy, healthcare and other public services, asylum and immigration – as well as the war in Iraq – have played in voters’ minds during the campaign. On election night we’ll be able to interpret how much these issues seem to have influenced the electorate as well as getting reaction from around Europe and elsewhere.”
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Senior media executive Madhu Soman exits Zee Media
Former Reuters and Bloomberg leader says he leaves with “no regrets” after brief stint at WION and Zee Business
NOIDA: Madhu Soman, a veteran of global newsrooms and media sales floors, has stepped away from Zee Media Corporation after a short stint steering business strategy for WION and Zee Business.
In a reflective LinkedIn note marking his departure, Soman said his time within the network’s corridors was always likely to be brief. “Some chapters close faster than expected,” he wrote, signalling the end of a nearly two-year spell in which he oversaw both editorial partnerships and commercial strategy.
Soman joined Zee Media in 2022 after more than a decade abroad with Reuters and Bloomberg, returning to India to take on the role of chief business officer for WION and Zee Business. His mandate was ambitious: bridge the newsroom and the revenue desk while expanding digital and broadcast reach.
During the stint, Zee Business reached break-even for the first time since its launch in 2005, while WION refreshed programming and strengthened its digital footprint across platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
But Soman suggested the cultural fit proved uneasy. Describing himself as a “cultural misfit”, he hinted at deeper tensions between editorial instincts shaped in global newsrooms and the realities of India’s television news ecosystem.
Before joining Zee, Soman spent more than seven years at Bloomberg in Hong Kong as head of broadcast sales for Asia-Pacific, expanding the company’s news syndication business across several markets. Earlier, he held senior editorial roles at Reuters, overseeing online strategy in India and managing Reuters Video Services from London.
His career began in television and wire reporting, including a stint with ANI during the 1999 Kargil conflict, before moving into digital publishing as India’s internet media landscape took shape.
Now, after nearly three decades in broadcast and digital media, Soman is leaving Delhi NCR and returning to his hometown, Trivandrum.
Exhausted, he admits. But unbowed. And with one quiet line that sums up the journey: he didn’t sell his soul — because some things, after all, are not for sale.
