Sidin Vadukut named Managing Editor, LiveMint.com

HT Media has named Sidin Sunny Vadukut as managing editor of LiveMint.com, the online edition of its business daily Mint. Vadukut will replace Durga Raghunath who is leaving to join WSJ India as editor, mobile and digital product development, reports ContentSutra.

“Sidin, a staff writer at Lounge (Mint‘s weekend supplement), has written extensively on a range of subjects including technology, authors one of LiveMint’s most popular blogs -- Playthings -- and also writes a column for the edit pages,” R Sukumar, managing editor, Mint, has written in an email sent to Mint staff.