The Editors Guild of India on Monday announced its new executive committee with veteran editors and senior journalists on the panel. The first meeting of the new committee will be held here on September 3, the Guild said in a statement.
The panel includes The Hindu Editor Mukund Padmanabhan; PTI Editor-in-Chief Vijay Joshi; Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd. Editor-in-Chief Shashi Shekhar; and Editor-in-Chief of the online portal The Quint Raghav Bahl.
The others are Dainik Bhaskar Group Editor, Prakash Dubey; Consulting Editor, Sakal , Vijay Naik, The Caravan Executive Director Anant Nath; Indian Express Consulting Editor Seema Chishti; NDTV Editorial Director Sonia Singh; Shillong Times Editor Patricia Mukim; Swarajya Editorial Director R. Jagannathan; Scroll.in Editor Naresh Fernandes; Executive Editor, Malayala Manorama , Jayant Mammen Mathew; Open Magazine Editor S. Prasannarajan; and former Managing Editor of India Today Dilip Mandal.
Ex-officio members
The former presidents of the panel, including India Today Group Editorial Director Raj Chengappa, former Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu N. Ravi; and TV Today Network Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai, were named ex-officio members of the executive committee.
Editor-in-Chief of Greater Kashmir Fayaz Ahmad Kaloo and Khabhar Lahariya Digital head Kavita Devi were named as special invitees.
The president, the general secretary, and the treasurer are ex-officio members of the executive committee.
Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, The Print , is the president of the Guild; A.K. Bhattacharya, Editorial Director, Business Standard , general secretary; and Sheela Bhatt, Editor (News Affairs), NewsX, treasurer.
