News Broadcasting
It is Arnab’s Republic now
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: It’s not the nation now, it’s republic. And, true to his flamboyant style, Arnab Goswami’s new venture, believed to be on the cutting edge of technology — and news — would be christened Republic.
Though not much details are available, Goswami, when contacted by indiantelevision.com on Thursday, confirmed that his new independent venture would be called Republic.
Goswami was mum on the nature of the project or the investors funding it or when the venture would be launched. Industry sources, however, opined that it may be up and running (as a news channel) on 27 January 2017. Goswami, reportedly, has offers dangling for many of his former colleagues in Times TV Network. According to company sources, quite a few may also join their former editorial boss’ new venture.
After about a fortnight’s speculation, the news about Goswami exiting Times group as the editor-in-chief of Times Now and ET Now became official in the first week of November 2016. Some media reports, which indiantelevision.com could not confirm independently, had indicated that the departure was not on as much a friendly terms as the celebrity news anchor had expected.
Before his departure from Times group’s TV news venture, in at least a couple of media conferences and events, Goswami had said that there were no reasons why India could not have a media organisation as professional or credible as BBC or CNN and also straddle the digital (news) world with equal ease, hinting at his future assignments and challenges.
Over the last several years, Goswami had become the face of Times Now news channel with his aggressive brand of TV journalism and signature news show called the `News Hour’, which actually ran over 60 minutes debating two to three big news developments of the day.
It is ironical — some may call it coincidental — that Goswami chose to make public to select media outlets about his new venture `Republic’ on a day when his former employer, Times TV Network, formally announced his successor at Times Now in Rahul Shivshankar for whom this would be his second stint at Times.
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News Broadcasting
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.
