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Jet Airways onboards Ronit Baugh as GM & head of communications
Mumbai: Jet Airways has appointed Ronit Baugh as the general manager and head of communications, as per Baugh’s LinkedIn update.
“Thrilled to be joining the iconic airline at this incredibly transformative moment in its journey, and to becoming a small – and hopefully, significant – part of the first-ever airline revival story in the history of Indian aviation,” Baugh wrote in a social media post on Monday. “I look forward to the opportunity of helping write the next chapter of the brand Jet Airways story, along with all colleagues and stakeholders.”
An alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication Pune, Baugh is a corporate and marketing communications specialist. He most recently worked with Oxford University Press as communications and public affairs lead for India. Previously, he served at Shiv Nadar University as brand and communications lead.
His earlier professional stints also include companies like Vistara, Aircel, Star TV Network, and IndiGo.
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
