Expansive proprietor

IN Media Watch Briefs | 03/07/2015

A year after former editor in chief Shekhar Gupta’s departure, the Indian Express proprietor Viveck Goenka made expansive speeches to staff at both Mumbai and Delhi about how well the paper was doing, how politicians read it with both trepidation and anticipation, and how its great content had made it the no. 3 Indian newspaper on the Net. He announced the launch of more editions starting with Jaipur this weekend.

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.