The managing editor and one of the wholetime directors of Mathrubhumi Group of newspapers and periodicals, Chandran was INS vice-president in 2013-14 and deputy president in 2014-15.
P V Chandran of Grihalakshmi (Mathrubhumi Group) has been elected president of The Indian Newspaper Society for the year 2015-16 at its 76th annual general meeting held here Friday. He succeeds Kiran B Vadodaria of Sambhaav Metro. The managing editor and one of the wholetime directors of Mathrubhumi Group of newspapers and periodicals, Chandran was INS vice-president in 2013-14 and deputy president in 2014-15.
Somesh Sharma (Rashtradoot Saptahik) will be the 2015-16 deputy president, Akila Urankar (Business Standard) the vice-president and Mohit Jain (Economic Times) the honorary treasurer of the INS. V Shankaran will be the secretary general.
Members of the executive committee of the INS are L Adimoolam (Health & The Antiseptic); S Balasubramaniam Adityan (Daily Thanthi); Pawan Agarwal (Dainik Bhaskar, Bhopal); Samahit Bal (Pragativadi); K Balaji (The Hindu Weekly); V K Chopra (Dainik Asam); Vijay Kumar Chopra (Punjabi Kesari, Jalandhar); Vijay Jawaharlal Darda (Lokmat); Jagjit Singh Dardi (Charhdikala Daily).
Viveck Goenka (The Indian Express, Mumbai); Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Dainik Jagran); Pradeep Gupta (Dataquest); Sanjay Gupta (Dainik Jagran, Varanasi); Shailesh Gupta (Mid-Day); Raj Kumar Jain (Navbharat Times); C H Kiron (Vipula & Annadata); R Lakshmipathy (Dinamalar); Rajul Maheshwari (Amar Ujala); Jayant Mammen Mathew (Malayala Manorama); Vilas A Marathe (Dainik Hindusthan, Amravati).
Naresh Mohan (Sunday Statesman); Anant Nath (Grihshobhika, Marathi); D D Purkayastha (Ananda Bazar Patrika); R M R Ramesh (Dinakaran); K Raja Prasad Reddy (Sakshi, Visakhapatnam); Indranil Roy (Outlook); Rakesh Sharma (Aaj Samaj); Manoj Kumar Sonthalia (The New Indian Express); Kiran D Thakur (Tarun Bharat, Belgaum); M Venkatesh (Hindustan Times).
Vinay Verma (The Tribune); Pratap G Pawar (Sakal); M P Veerendrakumar (Mathru-bhumi); Jacob Mathew (Vanitha); Bahubali S Shah (Gujarat Samachar); Hormusji N Cama ( Bombay Samachar Weekly); Kundan R Vyas (Vyapar, Mumbai); Ashish Bagga (India Today); K N Tilak Kumar (Deccan Herald & Prajavani); Ravindra Kumar (The Statesman); Kiran B Vadodaria (Sambhaav Metro).