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  • Taboola and Jagran ink two-year exclusive partnership

    Taboola and Jagran ink two-year exclusive partnership

    Mumbai: Taboola, which powers recommendations for the open web, helping people discover things they may like, on Wednesday announced a two-year partnership with a multi-lingual news platform Jagran New Media. Under the partnership, Taboola will become the renowned publisher’s exclusive content recommendation partner to amplify its audience engagement and increase revenue growth.

    With Taboola’s discovery platform and suite of products, Jagran New Media will enable their 91.48 million Hindi, English and Punjabi language users with content recommendations across desktop, tablet, and mobile web for increased reader engagement.

    Jagran will leverage Taboola newsroom to empower its editorial team with content performance in real time and help them with actionable insights from Taboola’s network to create relevant content for its readers. Moreover, Taboola News will enable Jagran to feature its content and acquire new readers through exclusive touchpoints on devices beyond the open web. Jagran will also leverage Taboola feed, a vertical-scrolling feed experience similar to social networks that allow its users to access numerous content they enjoy, including articles and videos. Using Taboola video, Jagran will provide a non-intrusive and in-feed video experience to its audience and encourage visitors to stay on the site longer by providing targeted and relevant content.

    Jagran New Media CEO Bharat Gupta said, “Jagran New Media has been at the forefront of delivering news to a variety of audiences across regions and languages in order to maintain its leadership position among the top 10 news and information publishers in India.  Our partnership with Taboola holds great value, as it will enable us to tap the potential of their technology expertise for improved product experience and grow our digital audiences across languages. We are certain that the partnership will enable us to attain growth in terms of user engagement, retention, and revenue.”

    Jagran New Media chief revenue officer Gaurav Arora said, “It gives us immense pleasure to announce our partnership with Taboola. With their technology expertise, innovations, and offerings, we are confident that it will enable us to increase engagement for our growing audiences across categories. We are excited about the partnership and look forward to their valued association to drive value for our readers and explore new frontiers of revenue growth.”

    Data from Taboola newsroom identifies topics and news categories that have seen an increase in page view traffic. The insights help publishers create user friendly content and improve website engagement.

  • Prabhu Chawla returns to India Today Group

    Prabhu Chawla returns to India Today Group

    New Delhi: In a major development, India Today Group has brought back veteran journalist Prabhu Chawla as editorial consultant for TV Today Network. He will be starting with the group from 1 December 2020.

    He will be seen weekly on Aaj Tak where he will be interviewing the most prominent personalities of the country. Chawla will also lend his expertise to political debates as and when required.

    “I am looking forward to seeing his no-holds-barred style, Prabhu, and working with a much-valued colleague,” India Today vice-chairperson Kalli Purie said.

    Chawla started his career with India Today Group and then moved on to join The Indian Express. He later rejoined ITG and was last serving as group editorial director and editor India Today (languages) when he decided to move on from the group in 2010. He was there for over 14 years.

    He has over four decades of experience in the news business and was most popularly known for his show Seedhi Baat where he interviewed some of the most popular personalities of the country including politicians, actors, sportspersons and others.

    Chawla has been associated with several major publications.

    He has won several accolades for his journalism and was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2003 by the president of India. 

  • NT Awards announces its jury

    NT Awards announces its jury

    NEW DELHI:Indiantelevision.com’s unique summit and award property that honours the crème de la crème of the television news industry is all geared up for its 2020 edition. Scheduled to be held over two days – 29-30 October 2020 – the News Television (NT) summit will focus on the overall industry and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead of it. The award ceremony that will be held on 6 November will felicitate news channels and the technical and editorial talent.

    The summit and award ceremony is powered by TVU Networks.

    The important decision of screening and selecting the winners will be taken by our esteemed jury. Every member of the panel is a stalwart with considerable experience in the news, media, and the brand space.

    Here’s our honoured 37-member jury for NT Awards 2020:

    The awards will recognise the leading players in the news television space across 51 categories in news programming, personality, technical, and sales & marketing domains. For more information, head on to http://ntawards.tv/index.php

  • moneycontrol.com editorial shuffled; moves to integrated news room

    moneycontrol.com editorial shuffled; moves to integrated news room

    KOLKATA: From today, the skeleton editing staff of moneycontrol.com, a business and finance news portal, which operated from Matunga (West), will be operating from the television unit at Lower Parel.
    It is learnt from industry sources that more than six reporters who were engaged in the financial news writing have been asked to leave.

    “Network18 Group won’t be producing any original content for moneycontrol.com. It has adopted a rationalised move by laying off all the reporters engaged in financial news writing. More than six reporters have been asked to resign and made to cite that they are walking out from the news organisation on personal reasons, the release letters of the employees disclose,” revealed the highly placed media source.

    TV18 Broadcast which has laid off around 300-400 people as a part of its restructuring exercise and has merged the operational teams of CNN IBN and IBN7, will now be producing the content for moneycontrol.com too. The young team would be editing the copies filed by the television bureau, sources added.

    The portal’s editor Santosh Nair has been asked to report in the Lower Parel office, but there is no clarification regarding whom he will be reporting to. Earlier, Nair reported to R Jagannathan, editor at Firstpost.com.

    Also, it is interesting to note that the portal’s chief executive officer Joyson Thomson was mulling to list the entity but it seems he has changed his plans overnight. “Though of late, moneycontrol.com was driven by marketing strategies and not hard core news perspective which it adopted earlier,” sources said.

    There were talks the news portal would set up an editorial team at Delhi and Kolkata. “In fact a year ago, the company was eagerly looking to hire an editorial staff for the Delhi bureau,” sources said.

    “The first carnage happened in the second week of August when TV18 said it would ask around 300-400 employees to leave. We got the notice in the last week of August,” recounts an employee.

    When asked about the compensation package, he said: “The compensation package is up to the mark as we have been offered three months CTC and not in hand salary.”

    Media analysts said that TV18 has restructured its operations and reduced its workforce significantly, as part of a cost cutting exercise due to the lackluster advertising environment and government regulations like the 12 minutes advertising cap on broad asters.

    Now going forward with this downsizing, journalists are required to work across both internet and TV medium, as the group has created integrated newsrooms.