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  • BEA elects Supriya Prasad as president; Ajit Anjum as general secretary

    MUMBAI: There’s change at the top at the apex body – The Broadcast Editors’ Association (BEA) – that represents the editorial interests of the Indian news broadcasting industry. Aaj Tak and India Today managing editor Supriya Prasad was elected its president while Ajit Anjum was elected general secretary at at a general body meeting held on 14 August in New Delhi.

    Other prominent journalists who will be holding office at the BEA following the election include: ABP News’ Dibang, Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami as vice-presidents. Ajay Kumar was elected too the post of treasurer.

    A 15-member executive committee was also constituted following the election of the office –bearers. The committee comprises Qamar Waheed Naqvi, Shazi Zaman, N K Singh, Milind Khandekar (ABP News), Rahul Kanwal (India Today and Aajtak), Sanjay Bragta (Zee News), Sonia Singh (NDTV), Deepak Chaurasia (India News), Sanjeev Paliwal (Aaj Tak), Abhishek Kapoor (Republic TV), Ravi Prakas (TV9), Sukesh Ranjan (News 24), Navika Kumar (Times Now), Bhupendra Chaube (CNN News 18) and Rajesh Raina (ETV). The executive committee serves to help the BEA take decisions.

    After election of the new team, BEA president Supriya Prasad thanked the outgoing leaders and appreciated the contribution made by them during its tenure. He also exhorted the new team to work to improve the role of electronic news media so as to make it more and more public- oriented.

    Ajit Anjum highlighted the need for expansion of the BEA by including editors of regional channels. For this purpose a three-member sub-committee was constituted with Sanjeev Paliwal, Rahul Kanwal and Sanjay Bragta as its members.

    The BEA serves as a moral watchdog of the editorial standards being practiced across India’s news channel ecosystem.

  • Ajit Anjum set to join India TV as managing editor

    Ajit Anjum set to join India TV as managing editor

    MUMBAI: Ajit Anjum, current managing editor of News 24 is set to take up the same position with one of the leading Hindi news channels- India TV.

     

    Anjum is currently serving his notice period with News 24 and according to sources, will be joining India TV from 1 August. This place has been vacant since former managing editor Vinod Kapri left the channel after a long stint of six years.

     

    Meanwhile, News 24 deputy director for news Deep Upadhyay will oversee operations.

     

    With an experience spanning more than two decades, Anjum has had stints with Aaj Tak, Chauthi Duniya and Amar Ujala.

  • Editors of TV news channels form body to take up content issues

    Editors of TV news channels form body to take up content issues

    NEW DELHI: Editors of satellite television news channels today formed a Broadcasters Editors Association (BEA) to “strengthen the values of objective and fair broadcast journalism” and to “protect and promote the freedom of expression.”

    BEA president Shazi Zaman of Star News told indiantelevision.com that the Association was a “forum to deliberate on content issues.” Asked if the BEA would take up the Content Code issue, he said the Association would discuss any threats to freedom of creating content.

    So would the BEA also become a negotiating body with the Government in the manner of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA)? “That would depend on a given situation and on whether the Information and Broadcasting Ministry wished to consult them as a stakeholder,” Zaman explained.

    The editors of television channels feel there is a need to evolve healthy norms, promote training of professional journalists at all levels, ensure dissemination of credible and constructive news content and to protect the right to freedom of expression, whenever threatened.

    There are two Vice-Presidents – Arnab Goswami of Times Now and Pankaj Pachauri of NDTV. ETV’s NK Singh is General Secretary and Sudhir Chaudhary of Live India is the Treasurer.

    Members of Executive Committee are: Ashutosh (IBN-7), Vinay Tewari (CNN IBN), Satish K Singh (Zee), Ajit Anjum (News 24), Vinod Kapri (India TV), Sanjay Bragta (Sahara TV) and Pranjal Sharma (UTVi).

    The BEA will soon develop its own website for direct media-public interaction. It will hold seminars and other modes of two-way interaction to receive feedback from civil society organisations and decision-makers in public domain.