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New delhi The former union minister MJ Akbar , who had to quit amid sexual harassment allegations, has been attending editorial meetings even though the company hasn’t announced his hiring yet.
MJ Akbar, the former editor and union minister who was accused of sexual harassment by several women in 2018, has joined WION, an English TV news channel run by Zee Media. Though the company hasn’t announced his hiring yet, Akbar has been attending the channel’s editorial meetings since August 16.
A WION employee told Newslaundry that Subhash Chandra, the chairman of Essel Group, the parent company of Zee Media, introduced Akbar in person to the TV channel’s senior staff in the second week of August.
Then, in an afternoon meeting last week, Sudhir Chaudhary, the editor-in-chief of WION and Zee News, told the staff that Akbar would be attending the morning meetings from the following Monday, according to another journalist at the news channel who spoke on the condition of anonymity.