Bharat Kapadia joins Lokmat as Board Member

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Bharat Kapadia has joined the Marathi daily Lokmat as Director on the Board. He would be reporting directly to the Board. Prior to Lokmat, Kapadia was with the Jagran-TV18 joint venture as CEO and Managing Editor. The primary mandate of the TV18 and Jagran Prakashan joint venture was to launch a Hindi business daily in 2008. This was to be followed up with financial and business dailies in other Indian languages. Apparently the current economic slowdown, lead to the shelving of this print project.

Prior to Jagran-TV18, Kapadia was with the Bhaskar Group as Executive Director and before that he was one of the main drivers in building up the Gujarati weekly, Chitralekha. Kapadia has been featured twice by Mid-Day as one of the Top 50 Power Points in media as well as by ‘Pitch’ magazine. He has also twice won the Ad Club Media Innovation Award and won the Emvies Media Marketer of the Year award in 2001. Kapadia has also been Chairman of the Project Press Committee of the Indian Newspaper Society; Board member and ex-chairman, Advertising Standards Council of India; and Ex-chairman, Media Research Users’ Council.
 

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