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Narayana Murthy among 4 inducted on NDTV board
NEW DELHI: Dr Prannoy Roy’s New Delhi Television Limited has inducted some new faces on its board as independent members. The noted names among these are Infosys chairman and chief mentor NR Narayana Murthy and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) director general Tarun Das
Also inducted to the board are former chairman of Price Waterhouse Coopers Amal Ganguli and Seagull Foundation for the Arts Peaceworks Programme co-ordinator Indrani Roy.
NDTV has also received the listing and trading approval from BSE and NSE and its shares are expected to start trading from tomorrow (May 18).
NDTV’s public issue, which began from 21 April, was aimed at raising Rs 1090 million by offering shares of Rs 4 face value in a price band of Rs 63-70. The stated aim of the IPO is for working capital requirements and to repay Rs 380 million debt. At least 60 per cent of the issue will be allocated on discretionary basis to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs), not less than 15 per cent to non-institutional buyers and the remaining 25 per cent for retail bidders.
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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.
