12 April,2011 07:03 AM IST | | A Correspondent
Jacob Mathew, executive editor of the Malayala Manorama Group of Publications, has been unanimously elected the president of WAN-IFRA, a global organisation of newspaper editors and publishers, at its annual general meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
He is the first Indian and second Asian, after Dr Seok Hyun Hong of Korea, to be elected to this office. Mathew succeeds Gavin K O'Reilly, group chief executive officer of The Independent News and Media Group, Ireland, on July 1. Thomas Brunegard, CEO, Stampen Group, Sweden has been elected as the vice-president.
WAN-IFRA represents more than 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries.
The World Association of Newspapers, founded in 1948 and IFRA, the Research and Service organisation founded in 1962, merged in 2009 to form WAN-IFRA. Its core mission is to defend and promote quality journalism, editorial integrity, press freedom and development of new media business.
The Malayala Manorama group, based in Kerala, publishes the Malayala Manorama daily with a circulation of over 1.9 million copies per day. The group has 50 publications, including The Week and Vanitha.
