Inflated newsrooms and the Internet caused the news business model to break down in the West
T.N. Ninan
An Award-winning journalist and one of India’s most respected economic editors, T.N. Ninan is editorial director of Business Standard newspaper. He was editor of the newspaper between 1992 and 2009. Before that, Ninan was the editor of The Economic Times and was responsible for establishing it as a leading financial daily. He has also been the editor of Business World magazine and executive editor of India Today
In War at the Wall Street Journal, an account of how Rupert Murdoch bought The Journal from the Bancroft family, Sarah Ellison has a brief vignette about the journalist who wrote one story a year — and he wasn’t considered unproductive.
(This story appears in the 03 June, 2011 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)