1. Education and personal life

2. Career
    India Today 

3. Awards and associations

4. Plagiarism

5. References

Education and personal life

A British Chartered Accountant, Aroon Purie graduated from The Doon School^[4][5] and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the London School of Economics^[6] in 1965. Bollywood actress Koel Purie is his youngest daughter.^[7]

Career

He started his career in 1970 at Thomson Press as Production Controller and continues to be its guiding force even though he handed over to his son Ankoor Purie.{{fact|date=January 2019}} With five facilities across India, it has a national presence. He began the India Today Group with an eponymous magazine in 1975.{{fact|date=January 2019}} Today the group is India's most diversified media group with 32 magazines, 7 radio stations, 4 TV channels, 1 newspaper, multiple web and mobile portals, a leading classical music label and book publishing arm.{{fact|date=January 2019}}

India Today

Vidya Vilas Purie, Aroon Purie's father, launched the fortnightly magazine India Today in 1975, with his sister Madhu Trehan as its editor and Aroon Purie as its publisher.^[8][9] The magazine was born during the Emergency declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. With India Today, Aroon tried to "fill the information gap which exists amongst persons interested in India residing abroad".^[8] With editions in five languages, it is the most widely–read publication in India – a position which, as of 2006, it had held for over a decade – with a readership of over 11 million.^[10]

He also set the journalistic style for the 24-hour news and current affairs Hindi news channel Aaj Tak and English news channel Headlines Today.{{fact|date=January 2019}}

Awards and associations

He was conferred the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award of the government of India, for his contribution to Indian journalism.^[11] He has received other honours, including the B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (1988),^[12] 'Journalist of the Year 1990' award by the Indian Federation of Small and Medium Newspapers,^[11] the G.K. Reddy Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism (1993–1994),^[12] the Hall of Fame Award from the Advertising Club of Kolkata (2002)^[12] and the NT Award for Lifetime achievement from www.Indiatelevision.com (2008).{{fact|date=January 2019}}

He is associated with several councils, including the Council of Management, Audit Bureau of Circulations (Chairman, 2000–2001).^[11] He is on the Executive Committee of The Editors' Guild of India,^[11] Council of Management All India Management Association (Special Invitee). He was Chairman of the CII National Committee on Media (2001–2002).^[11]

He is currently the chairman of FIPP (Federation of International Periodicals and Publications).^[13] Aroon Purie is a board member of the Global Editors Network since its creation in April 2011.^[14]

Plagiarism

A media watchdog, CounterMedia, found the opening two paragraphs—the first 250 words—of Purie's 400-word editorial of 18 October 2010 on the South Indian actor Rajnikanth to be identical to those in an article by Grady Hendrix published on 27 September 2010 in Slate, a US-based online magazine.^[15]

Purie apologised for the mistake, suggesting that it had resulted from jet lag and claimed that "a couple of sentences lifted from another article were sent to me." In response, Hendrix wrote in Slate: "The jetlag apology wasn't meant to be taken as a serious statement, it was more of an old school attempt to make the problem go away with a silly, 'Whoops, I'm tired!' shrug." Hendrix also wrote that he considered it "a satisfactory closure to the matter."^[16]

References

• The Centre of the Heart
• The Centre Of The Heart
• The Centre Party
• The Centrepoint
• The Centre (Saskatoon)
• The Centrists
• The Centurion's Empire
• The Century (Central Park West, Manhattan)
• The Century Club
• The Century Co.
• The Century Company
• The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
• The Century Dictionary of the English Language
• The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
• The Century (magazine)
• The Century Of The Self
• The Century Plaza Hotel
• The Cerberus Brothers
• The Cerebral Assassian
• The cerebral assassin
• The Cerne Giant
• The Certainty of Man
• The Certosa of Pavia
• The Cervara
• The Cestus Deception