Shoma Chaudhury, editor-in-chief of Catch News was forced to resign from the publication. In an email to staff, Chaudhury said that she was called in by the parent Patrika Group's director of finance and was asked to stop coming to work from Monday, February 29. Catch News began its operations in June 2015. "In a completely unexpected development, on 27 February, I was called to Jaipur by the director of finance and told that, since Catch has now been successfully created and stabilized, Patrika no longer wants to keep me on as its editor-in-chief. I was asked to stop coming to work from Monday, 29 February," Chaudhury wrote. "To say I am stunned by this arbitrary behavior would be an understatement. Catch was not a functioning institution I walked into: it is something I helped create from scratch. To be abruptly divorced from it like this seems a real injustice, to say the least," she added. Catch News reporters who spoke to MediaNama said that there was friction between the management at the Patrika Group and Chaudhury regrading the number of page views. "The management wanted the monthly clicks on the website at 3.5 million by the end of December. But it stood at about 1.2 million. And then they revised the targets to 6.05 million," a reporter at Catch News told MediaNama on condition of anonymity. Catch News was founded by Chaudhury, ex-Mail Today founder Bharat Bhushan and reporter Kunal Majumder in May 2015. Catch reports on everyday policies…
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