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  • The Indian Newspaper Society has rejected the MRUC response of waiting for the RSCI meeting on February 19

    INS rejects MRUC response. Mulls alternative currency. Key publicatns to start withdrawing fm IRS

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has scoffed at the decision taken by the Media Research Users Council (MRUC) this evening rejecting the ultimatum the INS had issued to them yesterday to withdraw the IRS 2013 findings that were released last week (January 28).

     

    A senior publisher told MxMIndia that the INS may consider legal recourse if necessary and at least one or two big publishers have already sent letters of withdrawal from the IRS.

     

    On being told that the RSCI meeting is just a fortnight away, the publisher told MxM that the INS can’t wait for a fortnight as the data is in the market and is being misused. When alerted that the RSCI chairman (and a former INS president too) Hormasji Cama was travelling, the INS member and publisher told us that since the Executive Board was around, they could have met and taken a decision.

     

    The publisher said that the advisory issued to the MRUC yesterday (Feb 3) was clear: that the IRS 2013 should be withdrawn. The data would be then viewed, validated and re-released, if necessary. The MRUC decision can be read here: http://www.mxmindia.com/2014/02/mruc-issues-statement-decision-on-irs-by-rsci-on-feb-19/

     

    Meanwhile, the INS is mulling an alternative currency too, the publisher said.

     

  • Walkout in Press Council meet as Chairman Katju refuses to withdraw remarks.

    Obdurate Katju sparks walkout by INS members in Press Council meet

    By A Correspondent

    The four publisher members representing the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) in the newly constituted Press Council – Dr R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar), Mr V K Chopra (Filmi Duniya), Mr Sanjay Gupta (Jagran) and Mr Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjab Kesari) – strongly protested to the Chairman of the Press Council for his remarks that “he has a poor opinion of the media” and “majority media people are of very poor intellectual level with no idea of economic theory or political science, philosophy, literature”. The publisher members were attending the first ever meeting of the newly constituted Council of the Press Council of India.

    However, Justice Markandey Katju, the PCI chairman, was firm on his stand and refused to withdraw the remarks made by him. The publisher members walked out of the meeting in protest.

    Earlier in the day, the Executive Committee of the INS took strong objection to the remarks made by the Chairman of the Press Council of India in a television interview and in subsequent statements issued by him to the press. The Executive Committee of the INS noted with dismay that the Chairman’s remarks demonstrated a deep bias against members of the Fourth Estate and that such bias would adversely affect the functioning of the Council in its quasi-judicial role.

    The Executive Committee strongly felt that the Chairman had undermined his own position as Chairman of the Press Council of India and that of the Council, by categorizing a majority of media people as being of poor intellectual level. In a strongly worded letter addressed to the Chairman of the Press Council of India, the INS President urged him to withdraw his remarks.

  • India Today group's chief executive officer Ashish Bagga all set to take charge as INS president

    Ashish Bagga all set to be INS president today

    Mr Ashish Bagga, Chief Executive Officer of the India Today group, is all set to take charge as president of the Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2011-12. The 72nd annual general meeting of the apex association of newspapers is scheduled to take place in Bengaluru today.

    Mr Bagga will succeed Mr Kundan Vyas of Mumbai’s Janmabhoomit Group. As is the custom, Mr K N Tilak Kumar of Prajavani who is currently vice-president is likely to be deputy president, a position that Mr Bagga occupied in 2010-11.

    A little about Mr Bagga (information culled from AdAsia 2011 website)

    Mr Bagga has been associated with the Indian media business for over 25 years. Other than the India Today group, he has also worked Hindustan Times as Director (Marketing). Immediately before re-joining India Today in 2001, Mr Bagga did a short stint as President & CEO with Business Standard for the paper’s e-initiative in association with Financial Times, London. Bagga has forged strong partnerships with several leading international media brands for the India Today group. He has been awarded a publishing scholarship by the Publisher’s Association of the United Kingdom through which he also worked with The Daily Telegraph in London in London.

    Mr Bagga is a Physics Honours graduate and an MBA and was also awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship in 2003. He is exceedingly active in various industry bodies.

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