13 Journalists Nominated to Press Council

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has notified the nomination of 13 journalists as members of the Press Council of India (PCI), the country’s statutory media watchdog.

The nominees include six newspaper editors and seven working journalists other than editors.

The newspaper editors nominated to the PCI are Pradeep Kumar Jain, Sayed Raza Husain Rizvi, Ankur Dua, Ms Aparna Shukla, Raj Parwana/Narender Singh, and Vinod Bajpai.

The seven working journalists, other than editors, are Vinod Kohli, Geetaritha Pathak, Prajnananda Chaudhari, Kingshuk Parmanik, C K Nayak, Prasanna Kumar Mohanty, and Bijoy K.