Two senior staff members are meeting with leading Indian editors and studying their news operations as part of a Fiji Sun-sponsored training and development visit to India.

Managing Editor Digital Rosi Doviverata and Editorial Manager Soko Vakacegu are visiting the newspapers, now some of the biggest and most successful English-language newspapers in the world.

Earlier they attended the International News Media Association South Asia conference in New Delhi, in which newspapers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan took part.

Rosi Doviverata and Soko Vakacegu outside the Times of India Group offices in New Delhi.

This focussed on new business models in the fast changing news media environment.

The newsroom visits have been facilitated by Jai Kumar Sharma, the former senior editor, Times of India group whose company Asia Media in Design works closely with the Fiji Sun.

Already they have had fruitful discussions with editors of the Economic Times (Times of India), Sunday Standard and the New Indian Express.

The Fiji Sun’s Rosi Doviverata and Soko Vakacegu with one of the top Editor of the Economic Times. The Economic Times is one of the biggest English-language business daily newspapers in the world.

Yesterday they had an interaction at the home of Ajit Ninan, chief cartoonist with The Times of India group and regarded as a living legend in the field. He has received both national and international awards.

Their next newspaper visit is with the editor of the Hindustan Times for interaction and to visit their newsroom before beginning their journey home through the Jet Airways-Fiji Airways connection.

Fiji Sun Publisher/CEO Peter Lomas said: “We’ve built strong and valuable connections with India.

Both through programmes like this, trainers like Jai Kumar Sharma coming from India and through our graduate journalists coming back from India.

“India is now one of the strongest growing newspaper markets in the world. Indian newspapers and newspaper experts are leading the way in innovative thinking. Jai, for example, is doing major projects for newspapers not just in India but across Asia and Africa.”

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