Mediatronics PR, a strategic communications agency, has entered the original content space with The Founders Cut Show. The in-house-produced series will feature candid conversations with unicorn founders, VC-backed leaders, D2C disruptors, and industry change-makers, offering an unfiltered look at their real journeys, from early struggles and pivotal moments to branding breakthroughs. Breaking away from traditional interview formats, each short-form, high-impact episode blends visual storytelling with founder-led insights. “We’ve built hundreds of brands behind the scenes, now it’s time to bring those raw and powerful stories to the forefront,” said Richank Tiwary, Founder & CEO of Mediatronics PR. The series will stream on YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms, aiming to inspire and demystify entrepreneurship. The pilot episode, dropping this week, features an exclusive conversation with one of India’s most talked-about bootstrapped brand builders.

    SBS Managing Director James Taylor (pictured) will be stepping down from his role at the public broadcaster after 13 years of service, with the last seven years as Managing Director.    Appointed as Managing Director in October 2018, Taylor has presided over a period of record growth for SBS. Taylor, who has led SBS since 2018, will start his new role as CEO of oOh!media in late 2025 or early 2026, succeeding Cathy O'Connor who announced in April her intention to step down after more than four years in the role and will remain with oOh! until January 2026 to ensure an orderly transition. “It’s been a privilege to lead SBS and work alongside such a talented and committed team. I’m incredibly proud that today we’re reaching the biggest audiences in our history, producing more original local content than ever, and doing it with a credibility we’ve earned, not claimed,” said Taylor. “SBS has a clear purpose: to serve, reflect and connect all Australians - no

Seated (just) to my left The headlines in the Sydney Morning Herald (“We will rebuild Gaza”) and The Age (“Humanity’s best hope”) perhaps confers rather more impact and centrality to Australia’s beneficence than is merited but Paul Sakkal and Matthew Knott today provide even-tempered reporting focusing on Australia’s promised role in the post-war reconstruction of Gaza as key to its policy shift. In The Age, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Knott also offers comment (“Breaking point for deputy sheriff”): “The Albanese government’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state marks [a] historic moment in Australian foreign policy even if the move is likely to have little to no practical impact on the Middle East in the foreseeable future.” Also in the SMH, David Crowe has an analysis/news piece on Netanyahu (“Sharp jab in Australia”), while Amal Naser pops up in the op-ed pages arguing “Recognition is a mere distraction.” Meanwhile, S

The Editors Guild of India will host the Prem Bhatia Memorial Lecture and Journalism Awards 2025 on Monday, August 11, at the CD Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre, New Delhi. The annual event honours excellence in journalism, with awards for Political Journalism and Environmental Journalism.  This year’s memorial lecture will be delivered by Justice Sanjiv Khanna, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, on the topic “Judiciary and Media: Shared Principles – Similarities and Dissimilarities.”  Instituted in 1995 by the Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust in memory of The Tribune editor Prem Bhatia, the awards and lecture have been carried forward by the Editors Guild since 2024, after the Trust handed over its corpus. The Guild will now organise and administer the awards and the lecture annually.

Two decades of bonhomie between India and the United States is now literally at its lowest point with long ranging ramifications as India, US, Pakistan and China try to adjust to rapidly changing global relations. While Indian PM has urged the country's technocrats to press for a "Swadeshi" policy urging Indians to go local after US punished with 50 per cent tarrif India for buying Russian oil, Pakistan's army chief has threatened to nuke half the world if their survival is in question. The Pak chief made this statement from US soil less than 15 years since Osama Bin Laden was killed by the US in Islamabad.   Hot off the Press Targeting US President Donald Trump over the doubling of tariffs and for calling India a “dead” economy, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, without taking names, said Sunday that “there are some people” who think they are “Sabke Boss” and, because “they do not like the rapid development of India”, are trying to make Indian goods expensive.

Prasar Bharati has signed an MoU with UK-based AdiGroupe’s sports arm, AEx SPORT, to launch Global League Wrestling (GLW), the first professional wrestling league in India and the Asia-Pacific region. The league will air on DD Sports and stream on Waves and All India Radio.  GLW will officially be unveiled on September 17, 2025, with broadcasts starting October 4. The inaugural season will run 40 weeks, offering family-oriented sports entertainment that blends Indian cultural storytelling with global production standards.  Prasar Bharati chairman Navneet Kumar Sehgal said the tie-up will promote diverse sports and give Indian youth a national platform, while CEO Gaurav Dwivedi called it “a new genre of youth-led programming.”  The Great Khali, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion, has been named Brand Ambassador and Talent Commissioner, tasked with nurturing talent and shaping the league’s creative vision.

Scum. Bizarre Chaos – it’s tabloid Monday The Daily Telegraph’s gigantic block-type headline “Selfie Reporting” kicks off what we can only call Tabloid Monday in fine style this morning. Below the ringing strangeness of its subhead (“Bail chaos as accused killer told to send pics hourly”), Joshua Hanrahan and Mark Morri offer some ringing strangeness of their own: “In a move senior police sources described as ‘bizarre’ Ayman Manley was last week ordered by the NSW Supreme Court to buy the officer overseeing his alleged murder case a new Apple iPhone and send a photo of himself every hour between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM as part of his revamped bail conditions.” The story sits above a puff-box for a page-eleven yarn, “They’re just scum – trading on the NDIS”, a story playing large across Murdochville mastheads, not least The Courier-Mail, which splashes it: “Scum of earth in NDIS scandal – trading the disabled.” In her exclusive, Julie Cross�