Rajasthan Patrika group sacks editor

February 29, 2016 13:50

In an abrupt move, Shoma Chaudhary, editor-in-chief of Catchnews.com, which was launched seven months ago, has been sacked.

In an email to her colleagues, she writes: 'In a completely unexpected development, on 27 February, I was called to Jaipur by the director of finance and told that, since Catch has now been successfully created and stabilized, Patrika no longer wants to keep me on as its editor-in-chief. I was asked to stop coming to work from Monday, 29 February.

'To say I am stunned by this arbitrary behavior would be an understatement. Catch was not a functioning institution I walked into: it is something I helped create from scratch. To be abruptly divorced from it like this seems a real injustice, to say the least.'

Catchnews.com was launched by the Rajasthan Patrika group.

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