Forum for broadcast editors lauched

New Delhi, Aug 22 (PTI) Editors of leading news channels
on Saturday launched a forum, Broadcast Editor's Association
(BEA) with the aim to highlighting and discussing issues of
editorial importance in broadcast journalism.

"We were feeling the need for setting up an Editor's
forum, where we could discuss issues related to editorial
content in television news channels. Therefore, BEA has been
formed to fulfil this need," said Shazi Zaman, Editor of Star
News channel, who has been elected the forum's President.

Zaman said the forum was different from News
Broadcasters' Association (NBA) and Indian Broadcasters
Federation (IBF), which are basically associations of news
channels heads and CEOs formed to self-regulate news content.

Times Now's Arnab Goswami and NDTV's Pankaj Pachauri
have been named vice presidents of the body and N K Singh
would be the General Secretary.

Other office bearers of the BEA include Live India's
Sudhir Chaudhary, CNN IBN's Vinay Tewari, Zee Tv's Satish K
Singh, Sahara TV's Sanjay Bragta, IBN-7's Ashutosh, News 24's
Ajit Anjum, India TV's Vinod Kapri and UTV's Pranjal Sharma.
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