Madhu Trehan

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Madhu Trehan
NationalityIndian
Alma mater Welham Girls' School
Columbia University, New York
Occupation(s)Journalist, Columnist, Author
Known forFounding editor, India Today (1975)
Notable work Tehelka as Metaphor (2009)
Spouse Naresh Trehan
Relatives Aroon Purie (brother), Mandira Purie (sister)

Madhu Purie Trehan (born 1940s) is an Indian journalist. She was also the co-founder and editor-in-chief of a digital media portal called Newslaundry . [1] [2]

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Education

Trehan studied at Welham Girls' School in Dehradun, graduating in 1962. [3] [4] In 1968, she went to Harrow Technical College & School of Arts in London to study journalistic photography. [5] She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, New York in 1972. [6] While in New York City, she worked at the United Nations in their press department, and served as an editor for a weekly newspaper, India Abroad . [6]

Career

Trehan returned to India in 1975 [6] when she founded and started the news magazine India Today, with her father, V.V.Purie, owner of Thomson Press. [7] [8] Trehan left the magazine to her brother's stewardship in 1977 during her pregnancy, and returned to New York to start her family. [7] [9] Upon her return to India in 1986, Trehan produced and anchored Newstrack , India's first video news magazine, [10] which earned her a reputation as a pioneering investigative journalist. [6]

In August 1994, Madhu Trehan took the rare and only interview of Yakub Memon who was convicted in 1993 Bombay bombings. [11] [12]

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. [9] [13] [14]

Trehan has written for leading news magazines and newspapers such as Outlook India [15] and Hindustan Times . [16]

In 2000, she launched Wah India, a website and print magazine. She, along with three other colleagues, also launched a crowd-sourced media critique website called Newslaundry in February 2012. [17]

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 news stands 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. [18]

Personal

Trehan is married to Indian heart surgeon [19] Naresh Trehan. [20] Aroon Purie, the former founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today , is her brother, and Bollywood actress Koel Purie is her niece. [21] [22]

Works

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The 1993 Bombay bombings was a series of 12 terrorist bombings that took place in Bombay, Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries. The attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, leader of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate D-Company. Ibrahim was believed to have ordered and helped organize the bombings through his subordinate Tiger Memon.

<i>Hindustan Times</i> Indian newspaper

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<i>Tehelka</i> Indian news magazine

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yakub Memon</span> Convicted terrorist (1962–2015)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Living Media</span> Media conglomerate based in New Delhi, India

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abhinandan Sekhri</span> Indian journalist

Abhinandan Sekhri is the co-founder and CEO of Newslaundry, a media critique, news and current affairs website.

Newslaundry is an Indian media watchdog that provides media critique, reportage and satirical commentary. It was founded in 2012 by Abhinandan Sekhri, Madhu Trehan and Prashant Sareen, all of whom earlier worked in print or television journalism. It was India's first subscription-driven website when launched, and since then other platforms have followed a similar model. In contrast to news websites such as The Wire, The Quint, ThePrint or Scroll.in, Newslaundry solely relies on public subscriptions, instead of donations or advertisements, for revenue.

In India, the offence of contempt of court is committed when a person either disobeys a court order, or when a person says or does anything that scandalizes, prejudices, or interferes with judicial proceedings and the administration of justice. Contempt of court can be punished with imprisonment or a fine, or both.

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  11. ↑ ""I Came Back to my Motherland": Yakub Memon's Only Interview". 16 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon's exclusive interview".
  13. ↑ Banerjee, Sudeshna (2009). "When corruption is a daily habit". The Telegraph . Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  14. ↑ Tripathi, Amrita (19 January 2009). "Madhu Trehan's new book on Operation West-end". IBN. Archived from the original on 4 September 2009. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  15. ↑ "Madhu Trehan". Outlook India. 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.[ permanent dead link ]
  16. ↑ Trehan, Madhu (1 March 2009). "Who's afraid of Karan Thapar?". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 15 February 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  17. ↑ "Author, journalist Madhu Trehan and three other colleagues launch NewsLaundry.com". India Digital Review. 14 February 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  18. ↑ 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).
  19. ↑ "Dr Naresh Trehan profile". Credihealth. 2017. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  20. ↑ "Ace of hearts: Dr Naresh Trehan". Harmony India. 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  21. ↑ Roy, Amit (17 December 2014). "Red Hot". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  22. ↑ "Newstrack – The video magazine that served real issues to news-hungry Indians in DD era". The Print. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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