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Bloomberg TV to look ‘Inside India’ tomorrow
MUMBAI: European news broadcaster Bloomberg Television will air a special Inside India on 25 September . Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin gives viewers an in-depth look at the challenges confronting India’s expanding economy 60 years after its independence.
Reporting from India, Bloomberg will examine investment opportunities,the debate surrounding India’s special economic zones, India’s retail revolution, the country’s developing infrastructure and the trend of “reverse outsourcing” jobs to the West.
India’s Financial Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram tells Bloomberg’s Amin “India is attracting foreign investors now. Better infrastructure will attract more investors and more foreign investments. This process of economic reforms and economic growth has to continue for at least another 20-25 years before many of our objectives are achieved,” .
In addition to Financial Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram , the programme features interviews with Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath Wipro chairman Azim Premji, Bharti chairman Sunil Mittal, Suzlon Energy chairman Tulsi Tanti, ICICI Bank’s Nilesh Shah and Citigroup India CEO Sanjay Nayar.
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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.
