Masthead mystery

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/07/2014

Another weekly edition of India Today has come out with no change in the masthead since Shekhar Gupta joined a few weeks ago. Though he is designated vice chairman and editor in chief of the news properties of the group, he does not figure as yet on the magazine's masthead. Nor do the journalists he has recruited though their stories figure in the magazine. Odd, but it may be because proprietor Aroon Purie apparently has a convention of not putting someone on the masthead till they have been there for a certain period of time.

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