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IBF panel to submit report on TRP issue in three weeks
The Indian Broadcasting Foundation, which met yesterday to discuss the TRP issue, has set up a committee to go into the issue, it has been revealed.
The IBF committee’s brief is principally to investigate into the charges raised by Zee broadcasting CEO Sandeep Goyal that both the ratings agencies – ORG Marg’s INTAM and AC Nielsen’s TAM Research – have completely lost credibility and need to be overhauled before the data they dish out can be used.
Sony Entertainment CEO Kunal Dasgupta said that the committee was to report back to the IBF within three weeks on its findings.
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Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
