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EBU calls for pubcasters’ greater role
MUMBAI: A clear mandate and sufficient funding to offer a full and evolving range of services in the new media is what the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is hoping from pubcasters in Europe.
To achieve this, the EBU has called on the European Union’s (EU) 25 member states to support the EU’s Lisbon Strategy
EBU is the professional association of Europe’s public service broadcasters. Senior officials of the EBU were attending a conference organised by the Dutch government – current holder of the EU presidency. The conference was called The key role of public service broadcasting in the 21st century .
The earlier mentioned Lisbon Strategy sees a decisive role for the audiovisual sector in making Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010.
EBU President Arne Wessberg, who is director general of the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation YLE, said that it was the responsibility of public broadcasters to serve the diversity of publics and cultures within their country. This can be done through the new electronic media as well as on television and radio.
He said, “Public service broadcasters must be given proper possibilities, by the societies in which they operate, to serve citizens with all media technologies they choose to use, and under adequate and predictable economic conditions”.
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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.
