Mathew is Indian Newspaper Society chief

Bengaluru, September 28 

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Jayant Mammen Mathew, Executive Editor of Malayala Manorama, was on Friday elected as the president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), apex body of the country’s print media industry.

He was elected to the top post for 2018-19 at the organisation’s general body meeting held here. He succeeds Akila Urankar of Business Standard, the INS said. 

Lav Saksena will serve as the secretary general while Shailesh Gupta of Mid Day newspaper will be the deputy president and L Adimoolam of “Health and The Antiseptic” as the vice-president.

Sharad Saxena of Patna edition of Hindustan Times is the organisation’s honorary treasurer. The 41-member executive committee of the society included Vivek Goenka of The Indian Express, Mahendra Mohan Gupta of Dainik Jagran, Mohit Jain of Economic Times, Vijay Jawaharlal Darda of Lokmat and Vijay Kumar Chopra of Punjab Kesari. — PTI