Rakesh Sharma of Aaj Samaj has been elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for the year 2023-24. He succeeds KRP Reddy of the Sakshi Group.
Mathrubhumi Group’s MV Shreyams Kumar was elected Vice President, while Amar Ujala’s Tanmay Maheshwari will be Honorary Treasurer for the term.
Sharma is Director, ITV Network and Good Morning Media India. Good Morning India publishes newspapers like Aaj Samaj, The Daily Guardian, The Sunday Guardian, India News and Business Guardian.
On his election, Sharma said “The print industry is facing tumultuous times post pandemic and trying to revive back to normalcy. I’ve a vision of taking up print industry issues at higher echelons of Government to get respite from this struggling phase.”
The announcement was made post the 84th AGM of the apex body of publishers of newspapers, magazines and periodicals on September 30, 2023.
Other members of the Executive Committee of the INS are:
- S. 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)
- R. Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar)
- Vilas A. Marathe (Dainik Hindusthan, Amravati)
- Harsha Mathew (Vanitha)
- Anant Nath (Grihshobhika, Marathi)
- Pratap G. Pawar (Sakal)
- Rahul Rajkhewa (The Sentinel)
- RM. 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)
- I. Venkat (Eenadu & Annadata)
- Kundan R. Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai)
- K. N. Tilak Kumar (Deccan Herald & Prajavani)
- Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman)
- Kiran B. Vadodaria (Western Times)
- P. V. Chandran (Grehalaksmi)
- Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik)
- Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama)
- Shailesh Gupta (Mid-Day)
- L. Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic)
- Mohit Jain (Economic Times)
- K. Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi)
Sharma has been associated with the media industry for the last 50 years. He was Publisher with Hindustan Times for 20 years. He is associated with iTV network for over 15 years. He joined as CEO at iTV network,
Aishwarya Sharma Pandit, Chairperson, iTV Foundation, said, “I heartily congratulate Rakesh Sharma Ji for being elected as President of Indian Newspaper Society (INS).”
Kartikeya Sharma, Founder, iTV Network, said, “Rakesh Ji brings with him enviable leadership and depth of experience. His vision will be of immense value to the entire print industry.”
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