''Open'' is an Indian English-language weekly magazine. Founded by

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, former executive editor of '' Outlook'' and editor of '' Financial Express'', it was launched on 2 April 2009 in 12 Indian cities.Open- About us
''openthemagazine.com''. Retrieved 14 March 2013 The magazine is the flagship brand of Open Media Network, the media venture of

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Staff changes

A report in '' The Indian Express'' in April 2012 concerning government apprehension about army movements was criticised in ''OPEN'' by the then editorial chairman of '' Outlook'', Vinod Mehta, in an interview with

Hartosh Singh Bal Hartosh Singh Bal is currently the political editor of ''The Caravan'' magazine He is also an adjunct faculty member at Jindal School of Journalism & Communication at the O. P. Jindal Global University. He had been the political editor of ''OP ...

. Mehta called the story a mistake and a "plant". In May 2012, the ''Express'' sent a legal notice to Open asking for an apology, for the contentious story to be removed from the online edition, for ''OPEN'' to pay 500

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s to the ''Express'', and for the journalists who wrote the contentious ''Express'' story. In November 2013,

, who was political editor of ''OPEN'', was sacked. The then editor,

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, said that the magazine's proprietor,

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, thought that Bal's writings and appearances on television were resulting in him "making a lot of ... political enemies." Joseph himself resigned when P. R. Ramesh became managing editor. Citing several instances of "press censorship", including the controversial firing of Hartosh Singh Bal, a July 2014 editorial in the ''New York Times'' commented that: In 2014, after Bal, Joseph, and

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had left, the magazine issued a clarification and expressed regret for the Mehta column. Mehta, Bal and Joseph then complained that the new editorial team of ''OPEN'' had violated journalistic norms because they had not been contacted before the issue of the clarification and that there was no way for ''OPEN'' to make the claims it was making in its clarification. , the editor is S. Prasannarajan. Rajmohan Radhakrishnan was its publisher until 2014 and was succeeded by Mohit Hira. After his exit in 2016, Manas Mohan was appointed in his place but left after nine months and was replaced by Ashok Bindra in 2017. Neeraja Chawla joined as the CEO of Open Media Network in 2018.

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