Madhu Trehan

Madhu Trehan
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Columbia University, New York
Occupation Journalist, Columnist, Author
Known for Founding editor, India Today (1975)
Notable work Tehelka as Metaphor (2009)
Religion Hinduism
Spouse(s) Naresh Trehan
Website Newslaundry

Madhu Purie Trehan is an Indian journalist and the founding editor of the leading Indian news magazine India Today. Currently she is the co-founder of a digital media portal called Newslaundry.

Biography

Trehan studied abroad, first at Harrow Technical College & School of Arts in London in 1968, learning journalistic photography and later at Columbia University in New York, where she earned a master's degree in journalism in 1971.[1] While in New York, she worked at the United Nations in their press department, and served as an editor for a weekly newspaper, India Abroad.[1]

Trehan returned to India in 1975[1] when she founded and started the news magazine India Today, with her father V.V.Purie, owner of Thomson Press.[2][3] Trehan left the magazine to her brother's stewardship in 1977 during her pregnancy, and returned to New York to start her family.[2][4] Upon her return to India in 1986, Trehan produced and anchored Newstrack, India's first video news magazine,[5] which earned her a reputation as a pioneering investigative journalist.[1]

In 1994, Madhu Trehan took the rare and only interview of Yakub Memon who was convicted in 1993 Bombay bombings.[6][7] In 2009 Trehan published her first book, Tehelka as Metaphor: Prism Me a Lie, Tell Me a Truth, examining the 2001 Operation West End exposé and its aftermath.[4][8][9]

Trehan has written for leading news magazines and newspapers such as Outlook India[10] and Hindustan Times.[11] In 2000 she launched Wah India, a website and print magazine. She, along with three other colleagues, also launched a media critique website called News Laundry in February 2012.[12]

2001 Delhi High Court ruling

On 25 May 2001 the Delhi High Court ruled 3–2 that Trehan and four other journalists on Wah India were guilty of contempt of court for an article which they published "rating the High Court's Judges in terms of various attributes and qualities". The article purportedly interviewed 50 unnamed senior lawyers to reach its conclusions. In April, the court had ordered Delhi police to seize copies of the offending issue from newsstands and raid the magazine's Delhi office. The court also banned the media from reporting on the case, but withdrew the ban on 2 May in response to media protest. Three days after being found in contempt of court, Trehan and her colleagues apologised to the justices, and their apology was accepted.[13]

Personal

Trehan is married to Indian heart surgeon Naresh Trehan.[14] Aroon Purie founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today is her brother and Koel Purie is her niece.

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jury". Light of India Awards. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  2. 1 2 Bhandare, Namita (21 May 2011). "70's: The decade of innocence". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  3. ↑ Kaminsky, Arnold P.; Long, Roger D. (2011). India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. ABC-CLIO. p. 347. ISBN 0313374627.
  4. 1 2 "Tehelka trail". The Tribune. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Nanda, Har Parshad (1992). The Days of My Years. Viking. p. 212.
  6. ↑ "“I Came Back to my Motherland”: Yakub Memon’s Only Interview".
  7. ↑ "1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's exclusive interview".
  8. ↑ Banerjee, Sudeshna (2009). "When corruption is a daily habit". The Telegraph. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  9. ↑ Tripathi, Amrita (19 January 2009). "Madhu Trehan's new book on Operation West-end". IBN. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Madhu Trehan". Outlook India. 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  11. ↑ Trehan, Madhu (1 March 2009). "Who's afraid of Karan Thapar?". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  12. ↑ "Author, journalist Madhu Trehan and three other colleagues launch NewsLaundry.com". India Digital Review. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  13. ↑ Venkatesan, V (17–20 July 2001). "Contempt and Punishment: The Delhi High Court's verdict in the case against wah india and the magazine's response to it raise questions about the way the judiciary deals with contempt of court charges in general". Frontline 18 (14).
  14. ↑ "Ace of hearts: Dr Naresh Trehan". Harmony India. 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.

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