A couple of days later, Chaudhry announced her decision to leave the organisation during a staff meeting. According to a person who was present at the meeting and has been a part of the website’s editorial team for over three years, Chaudhry told her staff that she was leaving because of “editorial pushback.” This person told me that Jagannathan was also present at the meeting and assured the staff that he is working on finding a middle ground by indicating that he would be “having a discussion with the management.” However, when I reached out to Jagannathan for a response to this story, he declined to say anything.
Yesterday, the Hoot—a media news and criticism website—reported that Firstpost has hired two new editors following Chaudhry’s exit. BV Rao, who was the news and communications director at the Reliance group, will now be joining the website as the news editor. Ajay Singh, who was has previously worked with The Economic Times, is going to take on the role of an executive editor.
