News Broadcasting
TV18 to centre operations in three cities
Television Eighteen India Ltd (TV18), is reorganising its operations and plans to retain office space only in the three metros of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.
According to Haresh Chawla, CEO, TV18, the effort was to maximise resource utilisation. Chawla said the company was in the process of expanding its news gathering operations to other cities in the country while at the same time doing away with office establishments unless absolutely necessary. As part of this “operational realignment” the Chennai and Kolkata offices would be closed, he said. Content providers would continue to be based in two the cities but will operate on a retainer basis. Justifying the decision, Chawla said this would allow for people to be stationed in more cities.
Chawla said news gathering operations would be expanded to Ahmedabad and then Hyderabad within the next quarter. TV18 is also in the process of identifying other news centres in the country but no firm decisions have been made as yet on where these will be located and when they become operative.
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.
