Another DNA editor goes

IN Media Watch Briefs | 02/04/2015

DNA editor CP Surendran told an edit meeting on April 1 that he had been asked to quit. It is believed that he was asked to quit as part of a general change of guard at DNA. The new CEO is Uday Nirgurkar, formerly editor-cum-business head of the Marathi news channel, Zee 24Taas; Bhaskar Das, the news group CEO, has been divested of DNA which was his sole activity, so he is unlikely to be kept around much longer. Other issues figure in reasons emanating for the changes, but we have no confirmation on those. Stability has not been part of the DNA's editorial DNA. In eight years of the paper's life, CP Surendran is the fifth editor to quit.

Subscribe To The Newsletter

Media Watch Briefs

Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.