Mathew of Malayala Manorama is new INS president

TNN

Mumbai:

Jayant Mammen Mathew

, executive editor of the

Malayala Manorama

, has been elected president of the

Indian Newspaper Society

(INS) for the year 2018-2019. He succeeds Akila Urankar of the

Business Standard

. The deputy president is Shailesh Gupta of Mid-Day, vice-president L Adimoolam of Dinamalar and treasurer Sharad Saxena of Hindustan Times. Harsha Mathew (M M Publications), M V Shreyamskumar (Mathrubhumi), P V Chandran (Grihalakshmi) and Biju Varghese of Mangalam Weekly are also in the new 41-member executive committee.