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  • Rajat Sharma takes helm of India’s top news broadcasters’ body

    Rajat Sharma takes helm of India’s top news broadcasters’ body

    NEW DELHI: Rajat Sharma, the seasoned television news anchor and promoter of India TV, has been unanimously elected president of the News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA) for 2025-26. The appointment, announced at the organisation’s board meeting on 19 September positions him at the head of India’s most influential media news lobbying group as the industry navigates mounting regulatory pressures and fierce competition from digital platforms.

    Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing , managing director M.V. Shreyams Kumar will serve as vice-president, whilst News24 Broadcast India chairperson and managing director Anuradha Prasad Shukla takes the honorary treasurer role. Both appointments were unanimous.

    The NBDA board includes heavyweights from India’s media landscape: Rahul Joshi of Network18 Media & Investments, Kalli Purie Bhandal from TV Today Network, and Anil Kumar Malhotra of Zee Media. Other members are Dhruba Mukherjee (ABP Network), I. Venkat (Eenadu Television), Rahul Kanwal (New Delhi Television), Mahesh Kumar Rajaraman (Sun TV Network), and Rohit Gopakumar Velloli from Bennett Coleman & Co.

    Annie Joseph remains secretary general, providing continuity as the association faces an increasingly complex media environment marked by regulatory scrutiny and the relentless rise of streaming platforms and independent news influencers.

  • Avinash Pandey re-elected president of India chapter of IAA

    Avinash Pandey re-elected president of India chapter of IAA

    Mumbai: At its Annual General Meeting held on 27 September 2023, the following members were unanimously elected:

    Avinash Pandey (CEO, ABP Network) – President

    Abhishek Karnani (President, Free Press Journal Group)- Vice President

    Nandini Dias (Independent Advisor)- Hon. Secretary

    Jaideep Gandhi (Founder, Another Idea) – Hon. Treasurer

    The following five members were elected as voting members:

    Srinivasan K Swamy (Chairman & Managing Director, R K Swamy Ltd),

    M.V. Shreyams Kumar (Managing Director, Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co Ltd)

    Prasanth Kumar (CEO-South Asia, GroupM)

    Anant Goenka (Executive Director, The Indian Express Pvt Ltd)

    Janak Sarda (Director, Blue Logic Systems)

    Cosmos-Maya CEO Megha Tata will continue as an ex-officio office bearer as Immediate past president.

    Apart from this, five more members will be co-opted in the upcoming ManCom meeting along with other special invited members.

    Adds Pandey, “The India Chapter of the IAA is arguably the most active industry Association of its kind in the country. Its initiatives cover a wide spectrum of areas including saluting excellence in Marketing, Creativity and communicating Sustainability. In the year gone by, we also started Tech Pulse to cater to the growing digital market. The IAA has always maintained that what is good, is good for business and in that spirit it has converted its Voice of Change initiative into a nation-wide movement aimed at breaking the gender bias in advertising and the entertainment industry.

    In the year ahead we will also be spear-heading two initiatives where we walk the talk that Communication is a Force for Good, and will also once again lead a group of CEO’s to the USA to study the latest developments in communication.

    I look forward to a very meaningful term ahead.”

  • Avinash Pandey re-elected NBDA president for the year 2023-24

    Avinash Pandey re-elected NBDA president for the year 2023-24

    Mumbai: Avinash Pandey has been re-elected the president of the News Broadcasters & Digital Association (NBDA). Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd., managing director M.V. Shreyams Kumar has been re-elected as vice president. News24 Broadcast India Ltd. chairperson-cum-managing director Anuradha Prasad Shukla will continue to be the honorary treasurer of the NBDA for the year 2023-2024.

    The other members on the NBDA Board are : –

    Rajat Sharma, Chairman – Independent News Services Pvt. Ltd.

    M.K. Anand, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer – Times Network – Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd

    Rahul Joshi, Managing Director – TV18 Broadcast Ltd.

    I. Venkat, Director – Eenadu Television Pvt. Ltd.

    Kalli Purie Bhandal, Vice-Chairperson & Managing Director – TV Today Network Ltd.

    Sonia Singh, Editorial Director, NDTV – New Delhi Television Ltd.

    Anil Kumar Malhotra, Advisor, Zee Media Corporation Ltd.

  • Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters to begin from 2 February

    Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters to begin from 2 February

    Mumbai: The Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters was started in 2018. After the critically and popularly acclaimed staging of three editions, the pandemic disrupted this signature event in the cultural calendar of India. Now, 2023 will witness a rebirth with renewed vigour and vitality.

    The latest version will be held in Thiruvananthapuram from 2 to 5 February. MBIFL’23 will provide a platform where discussions on the arts, gender, history, media, politics, religion, science, sports, technology, and other contemporary issues will lend a spicy tang to four days and nights.

    “A galaxy of universally renowned writers and speakers will grace this iteration, including last year’s Nobel laureate Abdul Razak Gurna and Booker Prize winner Shehan Karunathilake, from neighbouring Sri Lanka,” revealed festival curator Sabin Iqbal.

    “The theme of ‘Ka’, as it is known locally after the first consonant in our mother tongue Malayalam, is ‘Shadows of history. Lights of the future,’” said festival director Mayura Shreyams Kumar.

    “We chose this particular trope, conflating it with our voyage through a century of rendering yeomen service to society,” added Mathrubhumi, director of digital business.

    MBIFL chairman M. V. Shreyams Kumar explained the rationale behind the festival of letters: “Being at the forefront of all progressive movements in our state, we deemed it incumbent on us to celebrate the role of letters in contributing to the moral arc of a nation, by conceiving the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters.”

    Mathrubhumi’s managing director went on to say: “In our centenary year, it is also a tribute to the vision of my late father, the writer M. P. Veerendra Kumar, who guided our corporate fortunes for more than four decades as the chairman and managing director of Mathrubhumi.”

  • Mathrubhumi to organise a one-day event on World News Day

    Mathrubhumi to organise a one-day event on World News Day

    Mumbai: Mathrubhumi on Monday announced plans to host an event on World News Day on 28 September at the Uday Palace Convention Centre, Kowdiar Gardens, Thiruvananthapuram.

    Speaking of the event, Mathrubhumi managing director M. V. Shreyams Kumar, who will deliver the presidential address, elaborated on why the centurion institution was associated with the international event, said, “World News Day is a global campaign to display support for journalists and their audiences organised by the Canadian Journalism Foundation and WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum. By associating with this event, organised as a part of Mathrubhumi’s centenary celebrations, we intend to reinforce our identity as the custodian of credible and fact-checked journalism.” 

    Media mavens, eminent journalists, and owners will deliberate on the way ahead for practitioners of credible journalism in our age of disruption. The subject is “Sacred Facts: Media in a Post-Truth World.”

    The Hindu former chief editor N. Ram, the doyen of Indian journalism, will deliver the inaugural address. The keynote speech of the first session on “Fact Punch: Curated Media and its Challenges” is by the Indian Express’s former editor Arun Shourie. The event will start at 10 a.m. with a welcome address by Mathrubhumi vice president of operations Devika Shreyams Kumar.

    The Times of India, Tamil Nadu resident editor Arun Ram; Outlook former editor Ruben Banerjee; senior journalist Seema Chisti; and Frontline editor Vaishna Roy are the discussants, with The Hindu, Delhi resident editor Varghese K. George moderating the session.

    The post-lunch session between 1.45 p.m. and 3.15 p.m. will be on “Counter Media: Narratives, Lapses in Reporting, and Self-Critique,” to be moderated by N. Open Magazine executive editor P. Ullekh. The keynote address will be given by India Today TV consulting editor Rajdeep Sardesai.

    Senior journalist Hari S Kartha will be on the panel, as will Madhyamam editor V. M. Ibrahim, social media activist Kiran Thomas, Asianet News Group editorial advisor M. G. Radhakrishnan, and media critic advocate Sebastian Paul.

    The concluding session between 3.45 p.m. and 5.15 p.m. will be on “The way forward: Is fact-based journalism a winning proposition?” featuring ABP Network CEO Avinash Pandey; Kairali TV managing director John Brittas MP; The News Minute editor-in-chief Dhanya Rajendran; Boom Fact Check managing editor Jency Jacob and Ananda Vikatan managing director B. Srinivasan. While the keynote speech will be delivered by The Indian Express executive director Anant Goenka, the session will be moderated by Mathrubhumi director of digital business Mayura Shreyams Kumar.

    All three sessions will be followed by audience-discussant interaction.

  • Rajat Sharma re-elected president of News Broadcasters Association

    Rajat Sharma re-elected president of News Broadcasters Association

    NEW DELHI: India TV chairman and editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma has been re-elected as president of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for 2015-16, while ABP News Network CEO Ashok Venkataramani has been elected as the vice president.

     

    On the other hand, News24 Broadcast India chairperson and managing director Anurradha Prasad was reappointed as honorary treasurer. 

     

    The other Members on the NBA Board are: NDTV Group executive vice chairperson K V L Narayan Rao, TV Today Network CEO Ashish Bagga, Times Network MD and CEO M K Anand, Zee Media Corporation CEO Ashish Kirpal Pandit, TV18 Broadcast group CEO A P Parigi and Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. whole-time director M V Shreyams Kumar.