Shri Viveck Goenka presently Chairman and Managing Director of the Express Group has been elected Chairman of Press Trust of India, the country s largest news agency.
Shri Goenka, 60, succeeds Riyad Mathew, who is Senior Assistant Editor and a member of the Manorama management.The election took place at a meeting of the Board of Directors following the Company s 69th Annual General Meeting here today.
Goenka, an engineer by qualification and a publisher by profession, runs one of the most widespread newspaper publishing groups in India, which includes The Indian Express, Financial Express, Marathi daily Loksatta, Hindi daily Jansatta and a host of online news websites.
Goenka is also a director of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) besides being a member of the Advertising Association, India Chapter. He also served as Chairman of United News of India news agency, as a Council Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation and was one of the youngest past Presidents of the Indian Newspaper Society.
As head of the non-profit Ramnath Goenka Foundation, Goenka launched the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards which are now in their 12th year, for the finest work in the media in English and vernacular languages, print, TV and digital. Shri Goenka is a wildlife photographer and an avid student of conservation.
IndianBureaucracy.com wishes Shri Viveck Goenka the very best.