Hyd Gossip : Luring 'Eenadu', 'AJ' and 'Vaarta' Journalists

'Saakhsi' is the News Paper that's going to start in the captaincy of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. He hired Sajjala Rama Krishna Reddy, who worked in Udayam long back and gave him the mantle of Chief Editorship. He has also given him complete freedom in hiring the people to work with him. The first step, Mr Sajjala took was pulling out AVL Narasimha Rao from Vaartha for marketing. He offered double the salary and extra perks to Mr AVL to accomplish that.

It is said that Mr Sajjala streamlined the people from Eenadu, AJ and Vaartha to rope into 'Saakshi'. Grapevine says that many key people in these News Papers would drain out to 'Saakshi' bagging whopping salaries and perks. Sources say that YS Jagan Mohan Reddy advised Mr Sajjala to pull out all key people from those News Papers 'at any cost'. So the process started now. It is said that analytical and statistical News Providers those have the mettle are being offered huge pay pack of Rs. 1 to Rs 1.25 lakh per month. Journalists with innovative and convincing writing abilities, possessed with knowledge in Telugu language and literature are also being offered somewhere between Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh per month. We have to see how many will be loyal to Ramoji Rao or the owners of other two magazines.