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List of 171 Journalists who lost their lives due to COVID-19. (Updated until May 6, 2021)

Andhra Pradesh 1 Mr Srinivasa Rao Prajashakti Daily 2 Mr Surya Prakash Vikas Parvada 3 Mr M Parthasarathy CVR News Channel 4 Mr Narayanam Seshacharyulu 5 Mr. Chandrashekar Naidu NTV 6 Mr. P Tataiah -NA- 7 Mr Bhanu Prakash Rath Doordarshan 8 Mr Sumit Onca 9 Mr Golap Saikia All Radio 10 Mr Jadu Chutia Moranhat Press club president 11 Mr Dhaneshwar Rabha Rural Reporter 12 Mr Ashim Dutta -NA- 13 Mr Aiyushman Dutta Freelance Bihar 14 Mr Krishna Mohan Sharma Times of India 15 Mr Ram Prakash Gupta Danik Jagran 16 Mr Arun Kumar Verma Prasar Bharti Chandigarh 17 Mr Davinder Pal Singh PTC News Chhattisgarh 18 Mr Pradeep Arya Journalist and Cartoonist 19 Mr Ganesh Tiwari Senior Journalist Delhi 20 Mr Kapil Datta Times 21 Mr Yogesh Kumar Doordarshan 22 Mr Radhakrishna Muralidhar The Wire 23 Mr Ashish Yechury News Laundry 24 Mr Chanchal Pal Chauhan Times of India 25 Mr Manglesh Dabral Freelance 26 Mr Rajiv Katara Kadambini Magazine 27 Mr Vikas Sharma Republic Bharat 28 Mr Chandan Jaiswal Navodaya Times 29 Mr Kakoli Bhattacharya NA 30 Mr Jamal Ahmad PTI (Retd.) 31 Mr Ajay Kumar Choudhary The Pioneer 32 Mr Vijay Saluja Veteran Phorographer 33 Ms Nilakshi Bhattacharya Times of India 34 Mr Kalyan Barooha 35 Mr Anirban Bora Economic Times 36 Ms Kanupriya Former Anchor, Doordarshan

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37 Mr Zeyaul Haque Senior Journalist 38 Mr Pradeep Marshal Senior Journalist 39 Mr Sanjeev Kumar Gupta 40 Mr Vikas Trivedi Aajtak 41 Mr P L Razdan Senior Broadcaster 42 Mr Arun Pandey Sahara News Gujarat 43 Mr Shailesh Raval Freelance 44 Mr Yogesh Sharma Chaupal Chronicle Haryana 45 Mr Rakesh Taneja NA Himachal Pradesh 46 Mr Ravinder Kumar Jammu and Kashmir 47 Mr. Muhammad Shafi Naqsbandi Jehadi Akbar Karnataka 48 Mr Pavan Hettur 49 Mr Somashekhar Yadavatti Samayukta Karnataka 50 Mr Gowripura Chandru Vijay Karnataka Kerala 51 Mr D Vijayamohan 52 Mr Kamal Dixit Freelance 53 Mr Manoj Binwal Prajatantra 54 Mr Harish Choubey 55 Mr Akash Saxena Freelance 56 Mr Rajesh Mishra Agniban 57 Mr Mahendra Gagan Senior Journalist 58 Mr Shivdan Singh Sikarwar Rashtriya Mail 59 Mr Prabhu Joshi Freelancer 60 Mr Manoj Singh Rajput Khabarjal 61 Mr Baboolal Goverdhan Joshi Hockey Statistician / Reporter 62 Mr Sushil Tiwari Dainik Bhaskar 63 Mr Dilip Jain Maharashtra 64 Ms Fatima R. Zakaria Freelance 65 Mr Pandurang Raikar TV9 66 Mr Sabaji Mohan Palkar ANI 67 Mr Kailassinh Pardeshi Saamana 68 Mr Jairam Sawant Dainik Sagar 69 Mr Haresh Munwani Veteran sports journalist 70 Mr Javed Jivani Former Arab News staffer 71 Mr Ashok Churi Palghar Times 72 Mr Roshan Dias TV9 73 Mr Rahul Dolare NA 74 Mr Vivek Bendre 75 Mr Sachin Shine NA 76 Mr Sukhnandan Gavai NA 77 Mr Jairam Sawant NA 78 Mr Sadanand Shinde Navakal 79 Mr Santosh Pawar Senior Journalist 80 Mr Shyam Sharma Mayapuri 81 Mr K M Srivastava Senior Film Journalist Page 2 of 5

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82 Mr Mohan Ayyer Senior Film Journalist 83 Ms Shashi Baliga Senior Journalist 84 Dr Sumit Ghoshal Business India 85 Mr Raju Salvi A Maratha Daily 86 Mr Ruchir Mishra Times of India 87 Mr Jatish Khamari 88 Mr Amjad Badshah Digital Platform 89 Mr Govind Behera News 6 90 Mr Manoj Sahoo Nitidin 91 Mr Karunakar Sahu Anupam Bharat 92 Mr Subhranshu Sekhar Mishra Sambad 93 Mr Prabir Pradhan news channel 94 Mr K. CH. Ratnam Eenadu 95 Mr Priyadarshi Patnaik 96 Mr Prabir Kumar Pradhan News18 (Odia) 97 Mr Naresh Behera Odisha File 98 Mr Gobind Behera Odisha Express 99 Mr Manas Ranjan Jaipuria Odisha 100 Mr Simanchal Panda An Odia Weekly 101 Mr Pritiman Mohapatra 102 Mr Debendra Samantaray Sambad 103 Mr Adwaita Prasad Biswal Shramika Malika 104 Mr Manoj Beborta News18 Puducherry 105 Mr K Dharmaraj Polimer TV 106 Mr Bharat Polimer TV Punjab 107 Mr Ashwani Kapoor Punjab 108 Mr Naresh Bajaj Sach Kahoon 109 Mr S K Vyas Punjabnewsexpress.com Rajasthan 110 Mr Anil Varshney Senior Journalist 111 Mr Sanjay Bohra Senior Journalist Tamil Nadu 112 Mr E Velmurugan Cameraman/Raj TV 113 Mr V.Shrikanth PTI 114 Mr Ramanathan Reporter Private News Channel 115 Mr Florent C Pereira Journalist-actor 116 Mr K V Anand Photo-Journalist turned Director Telangana 117 Mr Chintha Nagaraju Eenadu 118 Mr K Amaranath News of Indian Journalists Union 119 Mr P Ramesh Freelance 120 Mr Bura Ramesh Freelance 121 Mr Jayaprakash Freelance 122 Mr. Srinivas Andhra Jyoti 123 Mr. Sainath 99tv 124 Mr Madiraju Giri ABN 125 Mr Ramzan Ali Eenadu 126 Mr Syed Shabaz TTV Page 3 of 5

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127 Mr Sridhar Dharmasanam Maa 128 Mr Sammi Reddy 129 Mr Kondra Srinivas Goud Hindi Milap 130 Mr. Ramachandra Rao Sakshi 131 Ms. Kalpana Bathukamma TV 132 Mr D Manoj TV5 news 133 B Ramakrishna Andhra Jyothi 134 Ahmed Mohiuddin Senior Photo Journalist 135 Gajula Vijay NTV 136 Mr. D Ashok 137 Mr R Nagaraju Vaartha Tripura 138 Mr Jitendra Debbarma Chini Khorang 139 Mr Tanmoy Chakraborty Local Digital News Channel Uttar Pradesh 140 Ms Tavishi Srivastva The Pioneer 141 Mr Neelanshu Shukla India Today 142 Mr Vinay Srivastava Freelance 143 Mr Pankaj Kulshreshtha -NA- 144 Mr Pankaj Shukla Rajsatta Express 145 Mr Ami Adhar Nidar Dainik Jagran 146 Mr Himanshu Joshi UNI 147 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran 148 Mr Pramod Shrivastava NA 149 Mr Durga Prasad Shukla 150 Mr Sachchidananda Gupta “Sacche” Jadid Amal 151 Mr Brijendra Patel Hindustan 152 Mr Shivanandan Sahu Digital 153 Mr Prashant Saxena Digital Journalist 154 Mr Rohitash Gupta Freelance 155 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran 156 Mr Raju Mishra Niwan Times 157 Mr Anil Srivastava Dainik Jagran 158 Mr Saket Suman Janta TV 159 Mr Pawan Mishra -NA- 160 Mr Kushal Khare Dainik Jagran 161 Ms Nootan Saxena Freelance 162 Ms Nikita Tomar Sahara News 163 Mr. Pramod Shrivastava Senior Journalist 164 Mr Chandan Pratap Singh NA 165 Mr Mukesh Mishra Senior Journalist 166 Mr Ramendra Singh Senior Journalist 167 Mr Ram Naresh Mishra Senior Journalist 168 Mr Hemant Kaushal CNN News 18 169 Mr Satya Prakash Asmin Senior Journalist West Bengal 170 Mr Ronny Roy 171 Mr Kishore Bhimani Cricket journalist Page 4 of 5

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This is the list of Media Persons who have lost their lives to COVID-19. This list is based on the research and verification process Rate The Debate undertook by referring to news reports in Local, Regional and National Media outlets. If we have missed out on any names, kindly update us about the same by filling the form in the given link.

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