Media veteran Rakesh Sharma, director of ITV Group and Good Morning Media India, has been elected as the new president of INS, replacing Raja Prasad Reddy.
Sharma was elected during the online 84th Annual General Meeting of INS that selected the executive team for the year 2023-24 on 30 September.
Rakesh Sharma’s Good Morning Group publishes newspapers such as Aaj Samaj, The Daily Guardian, The Sunday Guardian, India News, and Business Guardian.
MV Shreyams Kumar of Mathrubhumi is the new deputy president, Vivek Gupta of Sanmarg is the vice-president, Tanmay Maheshwari of Amar Ujala is the honorary treasurer, and Mary Paul is the secretary general.
After his election, Sharma said there was still much work to be done, especially on the industry’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’ve a vision of taking up print industry issues at higher echelons of Government to get respite from this struggling phase,” media reports quoted him as saying.
Other members of the Executive Committee of the INS are:
Balasubramaniam Adityan (Daily Thanthi)
Girish Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal)
Samahit Bal (Pragativadi)
Samudra Bhattacharya (Hindustan Times, Patna)
Hormusji N. Cama (Bombay Samachar)
Gaurav Chopra (Filmi Duniya)
Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjabi Kesari, Jalandhar)
Karan Rajendra Darda (Lokmat, Aurangabad)
Vijay Jawaharlal Darda (Lokmat, Nagpur)
Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily)
Viveck Goenka (The Indian Express, Mumbai)
Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran)
Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest)
Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi)
Shivendra Gupta (Business Standard)
Yogesh P. Jadhav (Pudhari)
Sarvinder Kaur (Ajit)
Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar)
Vilas A. Marathe (Dainik Hindusthan, Amravati)
Harsha Mathew (Vanitha)
Anant Nath (Grihshobhika, Marathi)
Pratap G. Pawar (Sakal)
Rahul Rajkhewa (The Sentinel)
R. Ramesh (Dinakaran)
Atideb Sarkar (The Telegraph)
Partha P Sinha (Navbharat Times)
Praveen Someshwar (The Hindustan Times)
Kiran D. Thakur (Tarun Bharat, Belgaum)
Biju Varghese (Mangalam Plus)
Venkat (Eenadu & Annadata)
Kundan R. Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai)
N. Tilak Kumar (Deccan Herald & Prajavani)
Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman)
Kiran B. Vadodaria (Western Times)
V. Chandran (Grehalaksmi)
Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik)
Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama)
Shailesh Gupta (Mid-Day)
Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic)
Mohit Jain (Economic Times)
Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi)
