Jacob Mathew, Executive Editor of the Malayala Manorama Group, was on Thursday elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS). Mathew, who was elected for a one-year term at the 66th Annual General Meeting of the INS in Bangalore, succeeds Pradeep Guha of Filmfare.
A trustee of the Press Institute of India and Research Institute for Newspaper Development, Mathew has represented the INS on the Board of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) for five years, an INS release said. He was the first Indian to be on the WAN Board and was later elevated to the WAN Executive Council, it said.
At the INS AGM, Gulab Kothari (Rajasthan Patrika of Jaipur) was elected as the Deputy President, I. Venkat (Sitara Film weekly of Hyderabad) as Vice-president and Mahendra Mohan Gupta as Honorary Treasurer, the release said. Mr Deepak S Raja would assume charge as the Secretary General of the Society.
The other members of the Executive Committee elected at the AGM were: Mr Vishwa Bandhu Gupta (Daily Tej), Dr B S Adityan (Vaarantari Rani), Mr Vivek Goenka (Indian Express, Mumbai), Mr Vijay Darda (Lokmat), Mr Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Mr Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar), Mr Pratap G Pawar (Sakal), Mr Abhay Chhajlani (Nai Dunia), Mr M P Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi), Mr Pradeep Guha (Divya Bashkar, Ahmedabad), Mr Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal), Mr M J Akbar (The Asian Age, New Delhi), Mr Tariq Ansari (Mid-day), Mr Ashish Bagga (India Today, New Delhi), Mr Samahit Bal (Pragativadi), Mrs Shobhana Bhartia (Hindustan Times, New Delhi), Mr Hormusji N Cama (Bombay Samachar Weekly, Mumbai), Mr Sunil Dang (Day After), Mr Devendra Darda (Lokmat Times, Nagpur), Mrs. Sakti Dasgupta (Bartaman), Mr Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express, New Delhi), Mr Sanjay Hazari (The Tribune), Mr Mohit Jain (Economic Times, Mumbai), Mr Vineet Jain (Maharashtra Times), Ms Sarvinder Kaur (Ajit Daily, Jalandhar), Mr Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman, Kolkata), Mr K N Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Mr Aniruddha Lahiri (Ananda Bazar Patrika), Dr R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar, Madurai), Mr Atul Maheshwari (Amar Ujala), Mr N Murali (The Hindu), Mr Paresh Nath (Woman's Era), Mr Jose Thomas Pattara (Deepika), Mr D D Purkayastha (The Telegraph), Mr T Venkatram Reddy (Deccan Chronicle), Mr Bahubali S Shah (Gujarat Samachar), Mr Rajendra Sharma (Swadesh, Bhopal), Mr Manoj K Sonthalia (Dinamani), Mr Kiran B Vadodaria (Sambhaav), Mr Rajiv Verma (Hindustan Times, Patna) and Mr Kundan R Vyas (Janmabhoomi).
