Talk:Dev Pragad
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Feedback from New Page Review process
[edit]I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for your contribution to Wikipedia! In my review, I added content from sources about Pragad's ownership and legal issues - I felt it's a little disingenuous not to include that info. There was some information that I was unable to attribute to the sources cited and sounded rather like PR, so that was removed.
9H48F (talk) 18:23, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- I added a Wikilink image link to this page's infobox, but I am not seeing the image. The image link is File:2-ceo-dev-pragad.jpg#/media/File:2-ceo-dev-pragad.jpg. It's from the newspapers public site and is for public use. Can you assist? Blue2berry (talk) 21:15, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
COI tag (April 2024)
[edit]Based on image, edit history, disclosure from creator. CNMall41 (talk) 20:37, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
Harvard Business School article removed by HBS
[edit]Perhaps it is due to a recent HBS website redesign. The detailed interview and coverage (titled "Benefitting from Time in a Virtual World - Executive Education") of BLP subject was accessible and provided sourcing in the "Early life and education" subheading as of a few days ago.
I tried to navigate there now, and found that HBS had redesigned the site. It was formerly exed.hbs.edu/participant-stories/... Now it is exed.hbs.edu/blog?category=Participant+Stories... Of 145 entries, none are for Pragad. I tried the Owner/President section. Nothing for Pragad. I searched Harvard B School exec ed and all of Harvard, could only find the Case Study. I checked Google which returns a result with the same URL (this is the snippet: "As the CEO of Newsweek, Dev Pragad was looking to equip himself with the tools required to take his company to the next level and expand his own leadership ...") but it takes me to the same exed.hbs.edu/blog?category... page as above.
Let's see if this resolves in a few days. I haven't checked Internet Archive yet.--FeralOink (talk) 11:54, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Wrong in link
[edit]I removed "By 2022, the media outlet was profitable and had 20 to 30% growth for the year, and 100 million readers per month" that quotes a WSJ article. The article makes no such claim. 2806:266:480:8DB3:8C50:9E04:767C:1AD4 (talk) 15:52, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Whitewashing
[edit]When I found this page, it looked extremely PR-whitewashed, only good things to say about Pragad, no mention of his past allegations of ad fraud, etc, lots of friendly edits from IP addresses who have only ever contributed to this article. Now that there is a very major lawsuit against Pragad, I expect this page to be targeted again. Just a heads up. Miserlou (talk) 12:10, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
- As expected, there is a user already trying to whitewash the lawsuit away. Miserlou (talk) 00:03, 8 September 2025 (UTC)
- No issues with you adding balance to this circle of articles around IBT & Newsweek. There is definitely something fishy with all of them. However I don’t think your addition in that form was the right way to go about it. ~ BlueTurtles | talk 10:30, 8 September 2025 (UTC)
- The citation was a link to a court filing, it's a perfectly acceptable primary source for claims of an allegation. The user doing the whitewashing violated 3RR, but you put it back to how it was before and it looks squeaky PR-clean again. There's something so shady about this whole thing. Miserlou (talk) 11:00, 8 September 2025 (UTC)
- I would suggest waiting for another source. I’m no legal expert but I presume anyone with enough money could make a court filing claiming anything, and that shouldn’t automatically warrant inclusion into an article. If you’d like to look at adding previous misconduct, feel free to. ~ BlueTurtles | talk 09:50, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
- The citation was a link to a court filing, it's a perfectly acceptable primary source for claims of an allegation. The user doing the whitewashing violated 3RR, but you put it back to how it was before and it looks squeaky PR-clean again. There's something so shady about this whole thing. Miserlou (talk) 11:00, 8 September 2025 (UTC)
- No issues with you adding balance to this circle of articles around IBT & Newsweek. There is definitely something fishy with all of them. However I don’t think your addition in that form was the right way to go about it. ~ BlueTurtles | talk 10:30, 8 September 2025 (UTC)
Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 8 January 2026
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The following text should be placed at the end of the “Career” section.
In January 2026, Pragad joined the Board of Directors of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). A graduate of Harvard Business School’s Executive Education program, he has cited the institution as influential in his development as a leader. His appointment to the HBP Board aligns with his ongoing work guiding Newsweek’s digital and technological transformation.
Sources
Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/dev-pragad Harvard Business School: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=61379 Grjohan (talk) 19:00, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
Not done: The proposed addition is excessively promotional in tone and not supported by the linked sources, which are also not independent of the article subject. Day Creature (talk) 19:47, 8 January 2026 (UTC)