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WSJ pulling back in India

The Wall Street Journal is downsizing its India operations and will pull the plug on its Indian edition, reports Nikhil Pahwa of Medianama.

Pahwa writes, “For the time being, its India focused blog, India RealTime, will remain. India Realtime has been scaled down over the past few months, sources told us.

“Anirban Roy, the Digital and News Editor (India) at WSJ confirmed to MediaNama that the coming Tuesday is his last working day with the publication, but declined to comment further.

“WSJ India’s Bangalore operation, where a reporter was posted to report on India’s tech and startup ecosystem, is also being shuttered, while the Delhi operations are being downsized, sources told MediaNama.

“Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the Wall Street Journal, hasn’t confirmed or denied these specific developments, but they have shared details of their recently announced global restructuring and layoff plans, which have been included in this report.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.