Jaideep bose biography
Jaideep Bose becomes Editorial Director, Times Group; Arindam Sengupta is Executive Editor, TOI
The top-level changes in The Times of India’s editorial structure that were in the offing for some time were executed middle of last week. Jaideep ‘JoJo’ Bose has now formally been named Editorial Director, Times Group, with a wide range of responsibilities across the Group’s media platforms. Significantly, this is the first time that ‘The Old Lady of Bori Bunder’ has created the position of Editorial Director in its history.
Following JoJo’s elevation, Arindam Sengupta has taken over as Executive Editor, The Times of India. For the past few years, Sengupta has played the role of deputy to JoJo. And Vikas Singh has taken over Sengupta’s previous role as Resident Editor, Delhi.
exchange4media had reported on May 12, 2008, that a decision had been taken to implement these changes. Around that time, there was also word in the market that JoJo had briefly toyed with the idea of joining Network18’s JV with the Pearson Group of UK to bring out the Indian edition of the Financial Times.
It was also then reported that an “unprecedented” increase in remuneration levels of senior editorial hands was in the offing as part of the Group’s talent retention efforts. It is learnt from sources close to the development that some of the top editors in the Times Group as well some members of BCCL’s (Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd) top management have now been formally informed that they would be given shares with five-year vesting rights.
This is a clear indication that BCCL might go in for an IPO sometime in the near future. There has been speculation in the market in recent times about the media behemoth planning to become a listed company.
A circular put out by Ravi Dhariwal, CEO, Publishing, BCCL, announcing these changes said: “Over the past three to four years The Times of India has made remarkable strides in its editorial quality. It has steadily become far more vibrant According to TIMES NOW TV Editor in Chief Arnab Goswami and The Times of India Editor in Chief Jaideep Bose and The TOI Vineet Jain Indian Ministry of Home Affairs Has Informed the Parliament that the Government of India will Not Order a Probe into the Spying by the Intelligence Bureau and the Indian Government on Amiyanath Bose and Sisir Kumar Bose the Two Nephews of Sanatana Bharat India Deshnayak Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 215 Famous Indian Hindu Baniya Vanika Vaishya Leaders of India One Year Performance of NDA Government of PM Narendra Modi HM Rajnath Singh FM Arun Jaitley and Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj The Government of India, Jawaharlal Nehru and Intelligence Bureau Spied on the Family Members of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Remote Area Networks such as Body Area Networks Mind Area Networks Thought Area Networks Brain Area Networks and Behavior Area Networks Monitor Manipulate Harm Hurt Discredit Humiliate Sleep Deprive and Torture the Indian Political Legislative Executive Judicial Administrative Business Academic Research and Military Leaders of Sanatana Bharat India Evaluation of the Performance of the 1 Year Rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, An Evaluation of the Performance of the 1 Year Rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Foreign Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Defence MInister Manohar Parrikar During May 26 2014 to May 4 2015 The 24 Hours a Day 365 Days a Year 10 Years a Decade and for Decades Continuously Functioning Remote Area Networks Such as Body Area Networks Mind Area Networks Brain Area Networks Thought Area Networks Behavior Area Networks and Development Area Networks Target Monitor Manipulate Regulate Control the Bodies Minds Thoughts Behaviors Priorities and Actions of Key Political Legislative Executive Judicial Administrative Military Academic Scientific Research Business Jounalism and Moral Activist Leaders and Influential Persona Indian English-language daily newspaper The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group. It is the fourth-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world. It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India, and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation, with its first edition published in 1838. It is nicknamed as "The Old Lady of Bori Bunder", and is a "newspaper of record". Near the beginning of the 20th century, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, called TOI "the leading paper in Asia". In 1991, the BBC ranked TOI among the world's six best newspapers. It is owned and published by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (B.C.C.L.), which is owned by the Sahu Jain family. In the Brand Trust Report India study 2019, TOI was rated as the most trusted English newspaper in India. In a 2021 survey, Reuters Institute rated TOI as the most trusted media news brand among English-speaking, online news users in India. In recent decades, the newspaper has been criticised for establishing in the Indian news industry the practice of accepting payments from persons and entities in exchange for positive coverage. TOI issued its first edition on 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. The paper was published on Wednesdays and Saturdays under the direction of Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian social reformer, and contained news from Britain and the world, as well as the Indian Subcontinent. J. E. Brennan was its first editor he died in 1839 and George Buist became the Editor. It became a daily in 1850 under him. George A great editor, a wonderful human being, and a much-loved friend
Ours began as a phone bromance. I had just become editor of The Economic Times in Calcutta; Arindam was coordinating editor for the paper, based in Delhi. I was in my twenties, he was almost a decade older. Within weeks, though, we'd struck up an easy friendship without having ever met. We would be on the phone - this was pre-mobile - several times a day; he was unfailingly upbeat and can-do in his attitude towards life and work. At the time, ET had editions in only four cities. I can't remember if Calcutta was the smallest, or if it was Bangalore; suffice it to say, its circulation was considerably smaller than Delhi's and Bombay's. But Arindam - ASG to his colleagues and 'Bong' to his friends from college - never made me feel like some young upstart in a far-flung outpost. He was open to good stories, no matter where they came from (as was our boss, Ajay Kumar, who was also based in Delhi). Before long, Calcutta stories were getting great play on the front pages of ET-Delhi, which apparently caused a few noses to be put out of joint.
I'd been at ET less than four months when the Babri Masjid was brought down. India was on edge, and stories of death and destruction, fear and foreboding poured in from across the country. ASG had always worked with general newspapers and magazines as a reporter and editor, but ET needed to write such stories differently, focusing on impact and implication rather than the gory details of the event itself. Night after night, he would anchor the front page lead with inputs from our various bureaus, woven together with the kind of insight and perspective that came from years of experience in the field. To this day, they remain a model in how to combine the drama of the day and the tension of the times with a sense of what lay ahead, which is what E sanatanisrivaishnava
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