The news came in as quite a shock to most employees as just the previous month, employees were persuaded not to join a new English daily that’s set up shop in Pune. “All of us had got offers from this new newspaper but we were promised appraisals the next month as incentives for not jumping ship”, claimed a reporter.



Incidentally, journalists working with DNA, on condition of anonymity, have told Newslaundry that they were coerced – with baits of hefty appraisals – into signing an undated document, which stated that they were voluntarily exempting themselves from the Majithia Wage Board’s salary recommendations. “We were made to believe that the Majithia Wage Board’s recommendations were not in our favour”, said a journalist working with DNA.