In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 27th May 2018 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. HT Media to launch paid news subscription soon: Digital CEO “Anybody who tells you in the news media industry that they won’t be taking the subscription route is either lying or soon going to bankrupt.” Rajiv Bansal, the head of the Hindustan Times’s Digital Streams, told exchange4media that the media company will soon launch a paid news subscription product. He indicated that Mint, the financial daily, may be one of the few brands that they will experiment with this year. Bansal didn’t elaborate on precisely what kind of subscription product HT might end up launching. Read it here Delhi HC issues notice to Google, Facebook, Twitter for revealing identity of Kathua rape victim The Delhi High Court issued notices to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube for allowing the upload content which revealed the identity of an eight-year-old girl who was raped and killed in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. While issuing the notice the court said that the platforms had done “a great disservice to the nation” by allowing these uploads. The notice was issued to these global web giants after the Indian subsidiaries of these companies told the bench that they were not the concerned entity to reply to the court’s notice on the issue. Read it here JustDial reports net profit increase of 53.6% with Rs 39cr in Q4FY18…
