Top Trainers From India Help Fiji Sun Advance More
Two highly experienced editors from the world’s biggest and most competitive English-language newspaper market are helping develop Fiji Sun editors and sub-editors.
Jai Kumar Sharma and Anirban Roy have been brought in from India by the Fiji Sun to work with those who every night, put together Fiji’s biggest newspaper.
They are working with these editors and sub-editors to improve editing and design capacity.
The 10-day programme is the first of a continuing series of such training visits to the Fiji Sun by top Indian editors.
Fiji Sun Publisher/chief executive officer Peter Lomas said: “It again underscores the continuing commitment by our owners, the CJ Patel group, to training and development.
“No other media organisation in Fiji invests as much in training and development as we do.
“We send our people overseas for specialist training. We bring in top trainers to run programmes such as this.
“We have more graduates in our newsrooms around the country than the rest of the Fijian media put together.”
About Mr Sharma and Mr Roy:
Mr Sharma heads the consulting group Asia Media Design. He is a former top editor with the Times of India Group, the world’s biggest English-language newspaper publisher.
Prior to setting up Asia Media Design he worked with some of India’s top media houses as an editor. These include the Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, and then the Times of India business daily Economic Times.
Mr Kumar’s expertise is in international demand. He comes to the Fiji Sun straight after doing development work with East Africa’s biggest newspaper company, the Nation Group.
There he helped redevelop and redesign one of Kenya’s prominent daily newspapers, Business Daily.
Mr Roy has more than two decades of experience in print, wire and digital operations.
He has worked with the Wall Street Journal (Editor, India), Thomson Reuters (Editor, Reuters India Online), India Today (India’s top magazine group) and recently with CNN-News 18 (India’s major TV and digital network).
He is a filmmaker as well as a journalist.
Edited by Jonathan Bryce
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