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Bringing you a significant personal update:
I have resigned as Editor of The New Indian Express.
Nearly five years on the job. Quite a journey, it was! Taking a ‘south’ paper right into battle with the big boys in the mainstream.
Lots to celebrate, analyse and reflect over. But first of all, thank you to everyone who followed my work during this passage. Performance is often lonely work, and one thinks of the collective out there—a reading, thinking public. Then it always makes sense.
It’s gratifying that good, old-fashioned journalism still works excellently if you produce clean, credible work. It turns out that all sides can trust it.
That may sound like a general axiomatic truth, but I have had the tough privilege of testing it in highly fraught and polarised times. Not an easy job, I can assure you.
How do I measure that trust? Well, I look at the sheer number of story leads and ideas that the TNIE put out and everyone else followed — from startups to big players. There’s even a Netflix docu out there! Becoming a kind of primary source for every part of the media was silent endorsement. Buy me good coffee, and I may tell you some stories :))
I have reason to think this was an outcome of a specific strategy, of playing with the notion of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in our news universe. It was a gigantic operation, with an editorial team that ran into the hundreds. Managing that as a woman editor, perhaps the first in India to rise from beat journalism to the editorship of a legacy organisation, was a rare privilege. And full of lessons.
Closing that chapter is a full-time job right now. The next one, right now, is some R&R!
#Media #Journalism #NewsMedia #IndianMedia
I have resigned as Editor of The New Indian Express.
Nearly five years on the job. Quite a journey, it was! Taking a ‘south’ paper right into battle with the big boys in the mainstream.
Lots to celebrate, analyse and reflect over. But first of all, thank you to everyone who followed my work during this passage. Performance is often lonely work, and one thinks of the collective out there—a reading, thinking public. Then it always makes sense.
It’s gratifying that good, old-fashioned journalism still works excellently if you produce clean, credible work. It turns out that all sides can trust it.
That may sound like a general axiomatic truth, but I have had the tough privilege of testing it in highly fraught and polarised times. Not an easy job, I can assure you.
How do I measure that trust? Well, I look at the sheer number of story leads and ideas that the TNIE put out and everyone else followed — from startups to big players. There’s even a Netflix docu out there! Becoming a kind of primary source for every part of the media was silent endorsement. Buy me good coffee, and I may tell you some stories :))
I have reason to think this was an outcome of a specific strategy, of playing with the notion of ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in our news universe. It was a gigantic operation, with an editorial team that ran into the hundreds. Managing that as a woman editor, perhaps the first in India to rise from beat journalism to the editorship of a legacy organisation, was a rare privilege. And full of lessons.
Closing that chapter is a full-time job right now. The next one, right now, is some R&R!
#Media #Journalism #NewsMedia #IndianMedia
