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DPS Lamba joins Prasar Bharati as board member
NEW DELHI: D P S Lamba, a management professional with over 30 years senior level experience, has assumed charge as Member (Personnel) of Prasar Bharati.
As a full time member of the Prasar Bharati Board, Lamba will head the personnel and administrative activities of Prasar Bharati and its two constituents – Doordarshan and All India Radio. He has been appointed by the high powered selection committee headed by the Vice-President of India.
An MBA from the prestigious FMS, Delhi (Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University), Lamba also holds a degree in law from the Delhi University and specialised PG diplomas in Administrative Laws as well as Labour Laws from the Indian Law Institute.
He has worked in various Government and Public Sector Undertakings including – Bharat Heavy Electronics Ltd., Gas Authority of India Ltd., Engineers India and Cement Corporation of India at different positions at unit and corporate levels.
Prior to assuming the office of Member (Personnel), Prasar Bharati, Lamba, was Director-Personnel (a Member of the Board of Directors) of Tehri Hydro Development Corporation for over nine years. Besides his administrative responsibilities, Lamba has made tangible contributions in the field of rehabilitation and resettlement and environmental aspects of Tehri Dam project in Uttaranchal.
A widely traveled person, Lamba has visited, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Denmark, Malaysia and Singapore in the course of his professional pursuits. He is an associate member of All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi and a corporate member of National Institute of Personnel Management (NILM), Kolkata.
Lamba is the first Member (Personnel) to be appointed on the Prasar Bharati Board.
The present composition of the Board is M V Kamath, chairman; K S Sarma, CEO; Bhupen Hazarika, M L Mehta, Chitra Mudgal (all part time members), Vijay Singh, I & B ministry representative, Brijeshwar Singh, DG, AIR and Navin Kumar, DG : DD (both ex-officio members); S Sundresan, formerly, Member (Finance) retired on 18 March 2004, on attaining the age of 62.
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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.
