Shobhana Bhartia, 52, Chairperson & Editorial Director, HT Media
It's been a tough period for publishing, but Shobhana Bhartia's HT Media had good news for shareholders and perhaps readers too in the quarter-ended September 2009. Profits spurted over the previous year's corresponding quarter (which was a bit of a disaster), and circulation revenues were up, although advertising revenues stagnated.
The 52-year-old Chairperson & Editorial Director has been buoyed by growing readership numbers of the group's Hindi paper Hindustan. "We would like to head into the smaller towns as that's where the wealth is going to be, says HTMedia CFO Piyush Gupta. Watch out for HT and Bhartia. - Puja Mehra
Resource: Business Today