A reference to the Indian Express

The Indian Express neither asked for nor published any article from Essar.

An Essar inter-office memo of August 27, 2012 states it has “lined up with Indian Express” among other newspapers “for favouring articles protecting the Indian Steel Industry.”

Another email dated August 23, 2012 from the corporate office in Mumbai to the Essar chairman’s secretariat states: “Had a detailed discussion with the Indian Express regarding the NMDC (National Mineral Development Corporation) iron ore pricing and made them agree to publish a feature on the NMDC’s unilateral pricing mechanism. IE wanted a write-up in this respect not exceeding 1000 words and also quotes from Essar, JSW, RINL and WELSPUN.”

The Indian Express neither asked for nor published any article from Essar.

Ritu Sarin

Ritu Sarin is Executive Editor (News and Investigations) at The Indian Express group. Her areas of specialisation include internal security, money laundering and corruption. Sarin is one of India’s most renowned reporters and has a career in journalism of over four decades. She is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since 1999 and since early 2023, a member of its Board of Directors. She has also been a founder member of the ICIJ Network Committee (INC). She has, to begin with, alone, and later led teams which have worked on ICIJ’s Offshore Leaks, Swiss Leaks, the Pulitzer Prize winning Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Implant Files, Fincen Files, Pandora Papers, the Uber Files and Deforestation Inc. She has conducted investigative journalism workshops and addressed investigative journalism conferences with a specialisation on collaborative journalism in several countries. ... Read More

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