Hard up at the Hindu

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/10/2014

The Hindu management has cut its bonus and incentive package for employees this festival sason because of the losses the company has suffered this year. Last year every employee received Rs 50K at bonus time, in past years the amounts have been different. This year employees have only been told that the company has suffered losses of Rs 64 crore. So what bonus and incentive will be given is anybody's guess.

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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.