Josey Puliyenthuruthel John, who recently left Mint as national corporate editor, will start at Business Today as exective editor early November. Editor Rohit Saran confirmed the development. John will report to Saran.

TV Today Network Ltd, broadcaster of news channels such as Aaj Tak and Headlines Today, today posted a net profit of Rs16.64 crore for the quarter ended 30 June, up 81% year-on-year. Total revenue rose 10.7% to Rs71 crore. The company achieved a 15% reduction in marketing and distribution expenses,…

India Today Group’s fortnightly personal finance magazine Money Today will soon become monthly, according to a person familiar with the situation. This is understood to be part of a larger streamlining exercise the group is putting several of its titles through. Money Today executive editor Alam Srinivas has also stepped…

Anil Srivatsa, COO at The India Today Group’s Meow FM, has left the radio station he launched in 2007, reports AFaqs. Meow markets itself as a talk radio station targetted at women.  Senior journalist Gautam Adhikari stepped down as editorial pages editor at The Times of India. He is moving…

—J.S. Sarma (pictured, right), a member of the Telecom Disputes Settlement And Appellate Tribunal, will likely be announced as the next chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Business Standard reports. Sarma was not among the 13 candidates who were originally shortlisted by the selection panel. BS columnist Sunil…

Aroon Purie (pictured, right), chairman and editor-in-chief at The India Today Group, India’s largest magazine publisher by revenue, spoke today at the 37th World Magazine Congress in London. At a panel discussion on Global Economic and Media Trends: Riding the Storm with William T. Kerr, chairman of the board, Meredith…

Mail Today, the daily from the India Today Group, has merged its digital division with parent India Today’s digital unit. In the process, seven jobs have become redundant. The division used to employ nine people, according to a source. India Today Group CEO Ashish Bagga confirmed the development. “We have…

Mail Today, the Delhi-based morninger that is published by a joint venture between Living Media India Ltd (The India Today Group) and UK’s Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL), has laid off 8 editorial staffers from its New Delhi newsroom, according to a person familiar with the situation. The India Today Group…

The TV Today Network, part of the Living Media Group, announced a 40% jump in its net profit for FY08. TV Today runs news channels Aaj Tak (and a Delhi version of the same), Headlines Today and Tez. The importance of Aaj Tak to the overall network is so skewed…

Video content from Headlines Today will be made available on blinkx, by virtue of a deal that the video search engine has struck with India Today Group Digital (ITGD/Digital Today). Blinkx will host separate channel for Headlines Today. The details of the deal haven’t been disclosed, though the industry norm…

At the exchange4media Conclave yesterday, Ashish Bagga, CEO of the Living Media (India Today) Group sounded a warning to those who don’t look beyond print: “though print is growing, if you look at the advertising projections for the next 10 years, sure, it’s going to grow, but its it going…

—Moser Baer has inked a couple of deals for content for their Home Video business: they’ve tied up with DQ Entertainment (DQE) for the distribution of two animated series - Pet Pals, targeting kids below 7, and Ratman, targeting kids between 7 and 11. The first two seasons of the…

We noticed that website for India Today, the flagship publication of the Living Media Group, was soft-launched in the evening yesterday. The India Today Group Digital (ITGD) has also launched publications Money Today, Prevention and Business Today earlier this year; India Today is the groups most significant launch yet. Remember…

The website of Business Today, a Living Media (India Today) group publication, has been relaunched; in its new avatar, B-T online is without a subscription wall that it’s earlier online version (a sample) was behind. The new site incorporates social bookmarking features (del.icio.us, Newsvine, Technorati), RSS feeds, and displays content…

The India Today Group is planning to launch a general interest portal in by the end of this year or early next year, featuring free content from its print publications, television channels and events. [via agencyfaqs.com] The portal will be a common gateway to content across ten verticals, including business,…