Jayant Mammen Mathew elected president of Indian Newspaper Society

Jayant Mammen Mathew, Executive Editor of Malayala Manorama, was Friday elected as the president of the prestigious Indian Newspaper Society, an apex body of the country's print media industry.

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

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 of INS.

Sharad Saxena of Patna edition of Hindustan Times has been made the organisation's honorary treasurer.

The 41-member executive committee of the society included Viveck Goenka of The Indian Express, Mahendra Mohan Gupta of Dainik Jagran, Mohit Jain of Economic Times, Vijay Jawaharlal Darda of Lokmat, Vijay Kumar Chopra of Punjab Kesari, Rajiv Verma of Hindustan Times, Sumanta Pal of Amar Ujala and Atideb Sarkar of The Telegraph.

Hormusji N Cama of Bombay Samachar, R Lakshmipathy of Dinamalar, Girish Agarwal of Dainik Bhaskar, Akila Urankar of Business Standard, P V Chandran of Grehalakshmi, Vinay Verma of The Tribune, RMR Ramesh of Dinakaran, Harsha Mathew of Vanitha, Pratap G Pawar of Sakal, Rakesh Sharma of Aaj Samaj and Ravinder Kumar of The Statesman have also been made members of the executive committee of INS.

Also among the members are Samahit Bal of Pragativadi, Pradeep Gupta of Dataquest, Kiran B Vadodaria of Sambhaav Metro, Kiran D Thakur of Tarun Bharat, D D Purkayastha of Ananda Bazar Patrika, Naresh Mohan of Sunday Statesman, Somesh Sharma of Rastradoot Saptahik and Bahubali S Shah of Gujarat Samachar.

INS acts as a central organisation of the print media industry in India and promotes and safeguards the interests of the industry.