News Broadcasting
India Today Group promotes Prerna Kaul Mishra, Sanjay Sinha and Amit Gupta
MUMBAI: India Today Group has witnessed a flurry of activity at senior levels with the recent being Supriya Prasad and Rahul Kanwal getting elevated to news directors in Aaj tak and India Today respectively. And now it’s time for three more executives to get promotion. The latest movers in the hierarchy include Prerna Kaul Mishra, Sanjay Sinha and Amit Gupta, who were elevated by the company. A source close to the development confirmed the news to Indiantelevision.com.
Mishra will now be the managing editor, social media and content services and she will also play a key role in ensuring the social media policy is followed and prevent abuse and misuse in a politically charged atmosphere.
Sinha has been leading the rapid success of Tez and Astro Tak, which has recently crossed one million subscribers. He has now been promoted as the senior executive editor and will continue leading Tez, Tez’s contribution to YouTube via Astro Tak and the brand new The Lallantop show.
Gupta, who is the chief executive officer of Mail Today, will take on added responsibilities as the head brand solutions across publishing and digital. His job will be to support clients in reaching target audiences through unique, customised experiences across publishing and digital platforms.
Last month India Today TV appointed Ranjana Mangla as the national revenue head. Earlier this year, the network promoted Kalli Purie to managing director and vice chairperson for a tenure of five years, which started from 1 April 2018.
News Broadcasting
Rajesh Sundaram joins NDTV Profit as senior editor, assignment
The 32-year newsroom veteran has launched channels on three continents and covered everything from 9/11 to South African television
MUMBAI: NDTV Profit has bolstered its newsroom with a hire who has done rather more than most. Rajesh Sundaram, a journalist with over three decades of editorial, managerial and consultative experience across India and international markets, joins as senior editor, assignment, tasked with sharpening the network’s newsgathering and real-time response.
Sundaram’s career reads like a tour of Indian media’s most formative moments. He began at Businessworld in 1994, moved to Zee News as bureau chief across Mumbai and Chennai, then joined NDTV in 2002 as part of its political bureau during a particularly febrile period in Indian politics. A stint as India correspondent for Al Jazeera International followed, where he covered key geopolitical developments and got his first serious taste of the global newsroom.
What sets Sundaram apart, however, is his serial channel-launching habit. At NewsX, he helped get the operation off the ground. At Headlines Today, part of the India Today Group, he served as editor. At News Nation, he helped launch the Hindi news channel and its digital ecosystem. He then crossed continents to lead the launch of ANN7 in South Africa as editor-in-chief, overseeing both television and digital. Back in India, he launched Tamil news channels News7 Tamil and Cauvery News, and later served as principal consultant for the launch of Marathi channel Lokshahi. Most recently, he helped build and lead the Press Trust of India’s video service and content studio, before stints consulting for Business Today and The Himalayan Times.
Rahul Kanwal, chief executive and editor-in-chief of NDTV, left little doubt about what Sundaram is expected to deliver. “The assignment desk is where a newsroom’s intent becomes action,” he said. “Rajesh brings a rare combination of field experience and leadership in building news operations at scale.”
Sundaram has reported from across India and the world, covering elections, civil conflicts, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 US presidential election.
At NDTV Profit, he will lead the assignment desk, driving editorial coordination and real-time response across markets and breaking developments. For a business news network sharpening its focus on speed and multi-platform delivery, it has hired a man who has built newsrooms from scratch on three continents. The assignment desk is in good hands.
