Network18 has appointed Sitaraman Shankar as Managing Editor, Special Projects. Shankar will work across all digital and TV news properties.
In the new assignment, Shankar will workwith Network18’s television news editors inmultiple areas, and drive the scaling up of the flagship digital brand moneycontrol, thereby expanding it tonewer areas.
Shankar will also serve as Group Training Editor and manage the content quality.
A chemical technologist-turned-journalist, Shankar has 22 years of experience in journalism, most of which was with Reuters where he reported, edited and ran newsrooms in Frankfurt, London and Dubai.