[icernet] Mammen Mathew appointed Reuters trustee

[Arul Selvan]

  The Reuters Founders Share Company today announced that Mammen Mathew, 
Editor and Managing Director of Malayala Manorama, one of India's 
leading newspapers, has been appointed a Reuters trustee, the first 
Indian to be appointed to this position.

Mr. Mathew worked as a newspaper journalist in the U.K. and the U.S., in 
the late 60s and is a former Chairman of the Indian section of the 
Commonwealth Press Union.

He served as the president of the Indian Newspaper Society and the 
president of the Editors Guild of India and was a member of the Press 
Council of India for two consecutive terms.

Source:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/11/17/stories/2002111704001300.htm