New editor for Outlook

IN Media Watch Briefs | 13/08/2016

Outlook magazine gets a new editor, Rajesh Ramachandran from the Economic Times, even as its outgoing editor Krishna Prasad is named in a case filed  against him, the writer and the magazine’s publisher, by BJP affiliates in Assam. This is for a July 29 cover story on the trafficking of 31 young tribal girls by organisations affiliated to the Sangh Parivar. The new editor, who takes over on August 16, was appointed a month ago.

    

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