[Reader-list] Breaking news, breaking lives

[Shivam Vij]

As fifty new news channels across the country - that's right, 50 odd -
are in the offing, TV news is increasingly making news, and a top TV
editors Facebook status says she is sick of TV news. Welcome to
reality TV. A crime reporter yesterday became the reported. She ended
her life thanks to her seniors in a channel appropriately called
"Total TV". Some print reports this morning hesitate from naming those
she named in her suicide note.
Keep watching.
Shivam



Noida suicide - cops look for TV channel executives

Press Trust Of India
Noida, September 21, 2007

First Published: 02:41 IST(21/9/2007)
Last Updated: 03:28 IST(21/9/2007)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=9523ce1c-97e2-4bef-ab2b-ea89ea351611&&Headline=Noida+suicide+-+cops+look+for+TV+channel+executives


Police were on the lookout for two executives of a TV news channel
named in a suicide note by reporter Priya Singh, who was found hanging
from a ceiling fan at a house here even as the channel on Thursday
expressed "surprise" over the incident.

Handwriting experts were examining the suicide note found in the
Sector 19 flat yesterday to verify whether was that of 23-year-old
Priya while the post-mortem report has confirmed she died of
"aspixiation due to hanging", police officials said.

They said a police team was sent to arrest the two executives, output
editor Tapan Bharati and executive producer Umesh, but they were not
in their houses.

The body of Priya, who was earlier an anchor in the TV channel, was
cremated at Antim Niwas in this city after her parents arrived from
Jammu and Kashmir where her father Babban Singh, an army officer, is
posted.

The police had also questioned the landlord of the house shared by
Singh and her friend Tanuja, a software engineer, and some colleagues
at the TV channel, the officials said.

A channel spokesman said they were "surprised to see the names" of the
two executives on the suicide note. "Priya never complained about any
executive or anybody else to the director or other staff. She never
gave any inkling of any resentment with any member," he said.

The family who hails from Lucknow has demanded a thorough
investigation into Priya's death.