In a fix

IN Media Watch Briefs | 27/01/2008

Since it has become almost certain that Vir Sanghvi is parting ways with INX media, the senior journalists whom he hired will be put in a spot. One who was all set to join from the Times of India is said to be quickly retracing his steps. Most of them are print journalists from the Express, Telegraph, Hindustan Times, etc. Even if some of the old employers were to take them back would it be at their old salaries or their new ones? As for Sanghvi, his former job of editor at the Hindustan Times is conveniently vacant.

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