Pro-active editor

IN Media Watch Briefs | 05/01/2017

This Frontline story just published, on the PMO’s monitoring of the turf battles between former Delhi LG Najeeb Jung and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, is based on multiple RTI applications.  It documents the pro-active role of Hindustan Times executive editor Shishir Gupta in drawing attention of the PMO  to Kejriwal’s violations, via an email whose subject line is ‘Kejriwal against Centre.’  The story also has Gupta’s response.