The answer (from this NYT story): due to a “troubling nexus” of business, politics and publishing that proved to be “draining on body and soul”. Raju Narisetti came to India in 2006 to set up a business newspaper for HT Media, leaving The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for…

Publisher HT Media Ltd today said net profit for the quarter ended 30 September was Rs31.41 crore, up 92% year-on-year from 16.28 crore. While the uptick when compared with the depressed sales of the year-ago period is not surprising, net profit for the quarter under review is only marginally (1%)…

HT Media’s business daily Mint has reshuffled its editorial leadership team (ELT), inducting several recent hires into the paper’s top decision making body. Monika Halan, Nabeel Mohideen and Shuchi Bansal (who recently joined as media editor), have been inducted into the leadership team, apart from Livemint.com managing editor Sidin Vadukut.…

Nabeel Mohideen, India bureau chief of Bloomberg, will join HT Media’s business daily Mint as senior editor w.e.f. 1 September. Mohideen has worked at the wire service for nine years, prior to which, he has been at Business Standard, Business World, CNBC TV 18,  Sunday Observer, and The Times of…

Readers of Hindustan Times woke up to a new young look to their 85-year old newspaper on Saturday. The paper implemented the redesign—done by leading newspaper designer Mario Garcia—with plenty of colour all over the paper (including headlines) and several new features. Promising more for the reader, editor-in-chief Sanjoy Narayan…

As part of its continuing expansion of services focussed on the Indian market, The Wall Street Journal has hired Durga Raghunath, managing editor of Livemint.com. She will join WSJ as editor, mobile services and digital product development, India. Raghunath confirmed the development. She will report to Paul Beckett, WSJ’s India…

Here are some highlights from the HT Media post result conference call this morning. Call was attended by HT Media CEO Rajiv Verma, Fever 104 FM business head Keertivasan and chief financial strategist Vinay Mittal. Radio business: The merger of Fever 104 FM into the company contributed Rs7.4 crore to…

Publisher HT Media today said net profit for the quarter ended 31 March dropped 44% from the year-ago period to Rs23.43 crore on account of higher newsprint prices, adverse currency movement and slowing ad revenue growth. Net sales grew 7% y-o-y to Rs333.82 crore, and total income grew 6% y-o-y…

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) & Co. In., the News Corp.-owned company that runs Dow Jones Newswires and publishes The Wall Street Journal, will double its investment in India for each of the next two years, the company’s India managing director Mitya New told Mint. For the firm, its India operations…

Fever 104 FM, HT Media Ltd’s radio network that was launched in 2006 and is present in four cities—New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata—has broken even, HT Media CEO Rajiv Verma told employees earlier today during a live company-wide video address. Verma said this while answering a question from employees…

HT Media Ltd’s business daily Mint and CNBC (NYSE: GE) TV18 have announced a content alliance whereby the two outlets will feature content from the other. Mint announced the partnership in a front page note to readers today, which points to the CNBC-branded inside page. Today’s featured content has two…

The ministry of information and broadcasting has given the final nod to Wall Street Journal India Publishing Pvt. Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Journal publisher Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) Inc., to bring out the facsimile edition of The Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal Asia. Suman Dubey,…

A comprehensive design overhaul is underway at Hindustan Times, India’s second largest English daily. Renowned newspaper designer Mario R. Garcia, who has redesigned The Wall Street Journal and The Miami Herald, among others, is leading the efforts, according to sources at HT. Garcia designed Mint, HT Media’s business daily, which…

The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) has accused Livemint of lifting content from its Sunday Business section. Patricia Kranz, deputy Sunday Business editor, New York Times has written to Poynter saying that “We have discovered a website called livemint.com, which is—according to the website—a “partner” of The Wall Street Journal,…

Mint, the financial daily from HT Media, has launched blogs with a couple of issue based series - one on careers called Mint’s Water Cooler, and another around the budget, called “If I Were FM”. There is an advert for If I Were FM in today’s Mint, asking readers to…