| Dubai: Saira Menezes - First-ever Female Editor for UAE's any English Publications |
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Daijiworld News Network - Dubai [WD]
Confirming the new job, Saira said, Emirates Evening Post is all set to re-launch itself and I have been given the responsibility to see through this change. Currently, the paper targets the general public, but that is set to change. In fact, we will start from the scratch and the new-look paper will have no resemblance to the existing one. Saira is responsble for re-vamping the Sunday-Miday, and the Mumbai's afternoon daily is the No. 1 position for its content, news and readership. She has been with Mid-day since 2001. Associate Editor of Alpa Lath Sawai will take over from Menezes as the new Editor of Sunday Mid-Day. In the year 2003, as per the India's major weekly 'The Week' Saira menezes was one among the '50 Emerging Stars of India' . Her contribution to journalism and her role in the media has been hailed by the weekly and quite deservingly she has been one of the emerging stars in the media Saira is an all-rounder. She has written on subjects ranging from films and fashion to the travails of ordinary folk. She started out in The Times of India twelve years ago. The sprightly graduate in English then shifted to Savvy and later to The Sunday Observer. She then joined a news-magazine as special correspondent. At 28, she took over as editor of Savvy and became the youngest to head a women's magazine in India. Saira's father, former chief librarian of Blitz, encouraged her love for the written word. Her first feature article was on Kavita Paudwal, singer Anuradha Paudwal's daughter, who was coming out with her maiden album. "I went to interview her and she was as nervous as I was," says Saira. "But we had this comfort zone of being first-timers." "I revised the piece again and again as my editor Ingrid Albuquerque was a very demanding boss. There was no way I could offer her shoddy work," she says. Saira, however, is not a demanding boss. "I have been a reporter and understand the difficulties." She is married to Sishir Joshi, the chief of the Mumbai bureau of Aaj Tak. She had met him while on a reporting assignment in Nagpur, where he was a reporter with The Indian Express. Having achieved it all so soon in life, where does she go from here? "You burn out only if you are looking for vertical or structured growth," says Saira. "You need to keep your options open, and keep on reinventing yourself." It helps to have a spouse from the same profession. "We feed on each other for ideas and suggestions," says Saira, who reads a lot and tries to spend as much time as possible with her close-knit family. Saira is quite proud of her achievement. But she believes her biggest reward came through an article she wrote on the plight of workers in Khambat. Soon after it was published, one worker called her and said, "I don't know English but your article made a big difference." That is what she always wanted to do - make a big difference. "A person entering journalism should do so with his/her eyes open.Unpredictability is part and parcel of our jobs," says Saira Menezes. "Three years ago," recalls Saira, "when we were working on a new look for our paper, we were at work by 10 am. We would leave the next morning around 3 am. We would rest for a few hours, then be back at work. This went on for eight months." "Normally work moves at a smooth pace. The week starts off gradually, then picks up momentum as the weekend draws near. My weekends are always spent at the workplace," adds Saira. |
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