What’s in store for Activate India and beyond? The Guardian Activate Summit presents Sanjay Salil, Managing Director of MediaGuru, with closing remarks from Jeff Jarvis, Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism."
Sanjay Salil is the reason and vision behind MediaGuru. He began as a career journalist with print media and worked with leading Hindi daily newspapers in India. Even as electronic media just entered the Indian terrain in mid-90s, he foresaw the growth trajectory of broadcast. Naturally, he was a part of the growth and launch of India’s first 24*7 private TV news channel, Aaj Tak from the India Today group. He also served as Joint Chief Executive Officer of a duo of television stations before foraying on his own.
Sanjay found MediaGuru in 2003. With his ever growing hands-on experience in media, he led MediaGuru to set up and launch a 24X7 national news & current affairs channel, Channel7 for India’s no. 1 Hindi daily Dainik Jagran. It is now known as IBN 7 and is a part of the TV18 – CNBC group.
His keen business acumen and ethics have helped MediaGuru forge and diversify a group of media companies in these few years since inception. The company today owns independent verticals in technology and system integration, new media ventures, broadcast, media infrastructure, among others, being managed from offices in Delhi, Mumbai, London and Singapore.
Influential newspaper published in London and Manchester, Eng., considered one of Britain's best papers. Founded in 1821 as the weekly Manchester Guardian, it became a daily in 1855; 100 years later Manchester was dropped from the name, as it had become a national daily with an international reputation. In 1936 one of the newspapers most influential editors, C.P. Scott, created the Scott Trust as a means of assuring independent ownership for the newspaper. Still owned by the trust, the paper takes an independent liberal stance in its editorials while maintaining great breadth and depth of news coverage.