List of 211 Journalists who lost their lives due to COVID-19. (Updated until May 10, 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 Eenadu
5 Mr Chandrashekar Naidu NTV
6 Mr P Tataiah -NA-
7 Mr Bhanu Prakash Rath Doordarshan
8 Mr Sumit Onka The Pioneer
9 Mr Gopi Sakshi
Assam 10 Mr Golap Saikia All India Radio 11 Mr Jadu Chutia Moranhat Press club president
12 Mr Dhaneshwar Rabha Rural Reporter
13 Mr Ashim Dutta -NA-
14 Mr Aiyushman Dutta Freelance
Bihar 15 Mr Krishna Mohan Sharma Times of India 16 Mr Ram Prakash Gupta Danik Jagran
17 Mr Arun Kumar Verma Prasar Bharti
Chandigarh 18 Mr Davinder Pal Singh PTC News Chhattisgarh 19 Mr Pradeep Arya Journalist and Cartoonist 20 Mr Ganesh Tiwari Senior Journalist
Delhi 21 Mr Kapil Datta Hindustan Times 22 Mr Yogesh Kumar Doordarshan
23 Mr Radhakrishna Muralidhar The Wire
24 Mr Ashish Yechury News Laundry
25 Mr Chanchal Pal Chauhan Times of India
26 Mr Manglesh Dabral Freelance
27 Mr Rajiv Katara Kadambini Magazine
28 Mr Vikas Sharma Republic Bharat
29 Mr Chandan Jaiswal Navodaya Times
30 Mr Kakoli Bhattacharya NA
31 Mr Jamal Ahmad PTI (Retd)
32 Mr Ajay Kumar Choudhary The Pioneer
33 Mr Vijay Saluja Veteran Phorographer
34 Ms Nilakshi Bhattacharya Times of India
35 Mr Kalyan Barooha The Assam Tribune
36 Mr Anirban Bora Economic Times
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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 37 Ms Kanupriya Former Anchor, Doordarshan
38 Mr Zeyaul Haque Senior Journalist
39 Mr Pradeep Marshal Senior Journalist
40 Mr Sanjeev Kumar Gupta Lokmat
41 Mr Vikas Trivedi Aajtak
42 Mr P L Razdan Senior Broadcaster
43 Mr Rajender Upadhya IIS
44 Mr Shankar Suman P7news
45 Mr Arun Pandey Sahara News
Gujarat 46 Mr Shailesh Raval Freelance 47 Mr Yogesh Sharma Chaupal Chronicle
48 Mr Vinod Gajjar ABP Asmita
Haryana 49 Mr Rakesh Taneja NA Himachal Pradesh 50 Mr Ravinder Kumar Dainik Jagran Jammu and 51 Mr Muhammad Shafi Naqsbandi Jehadi Akbar Kashmir Jharkhand 52 Mr Mrityunjay Srivastava Aaj Tak Karnataka 53 Mr Pavan Hettur Prajavani 54 Mr Somashekhar Yadavatti Samayukta Karnataka
55 Mr Gowripura Chandru Vijay Karnataka
Kerala 56 Mr D Vijayamohan Malayala Manorama 57 Mr Vipinchand Mathrubhumi News
Madhya Pradesh 58 Mr Kamal Dixit Freelance 59 Mr Manoj Binwal Prajatantra
60 Mr Harish Choubey Dainik Bhaskar
61 Mr Akash Saxena Freelance
62 Mr Rajesh Mishra Agniban
63 Mr Mahendra Gagan Senior Journalist
64 Mr Shivdan Singh Sikarwar Rashtriya Hindi Mail
65 Mr Prabhu Joshi Freelancer
66 Mr Manoj Singh Rajput Khabarjal
67 Mr Baboolal Goverdhan Joshi Hockey Statistician / Reporter
68 Mr Sushil Tiwari Dainik Bhaskar
69 Mr Dilip Jain Saamana
70 Mr Praveen Shrivastava Freelance
71 Mr Rajesh Itouria public relations officer
72 Mr Trilok Ramnekar SMBC Insight news
73 Mr Tajnoor Khan Freelance
74 Mr Dharmendra Chourey Sani Express
Maharashtra 75 Ms Fatima R Zakaria Freelance 76 Mr Pandurang Raikar TV9
77 Mr Sabaji Mohan Palkar ANI
78 Mr Kailassinh Pardeshi Saamana
79 Mr Jairam Sawant Dainik Sagar
80 Mr Haresh Munwani Veteran sports journalist
81 Mr Javed Jivani Former Arab News staffer Page 2 of 5
Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 82 Mr Ashok Churi Palghar Times
83 Mr Roshan Dias TV9
84 Mr Rahul Dolare NA
85 Mr Vivek Bendre The Hindu
86 Mr Sachin Shine NA
87 Mr Sukhnandan Gavai NA
88 Mr Sadanand Shinde Navakal
89 Mr Santosh Pawar Senior Journalist
90 Mr Shyam Sharma Mayapuri
91 Mr K M Srivastava Senior Film Journalist
92 Mr Mohan Ayyer Senior Film Journalist
93 Ms Shashi Baliga Senior Journalist
94 Dr Sumit Ghoshal Business India
95 Mr Raju Salvi A Maratha Daily
96 Mr Ruchir Mishra Times of India
Odisha 97 Mr Jatish Khamari Sambad 98 Mr Amjad Badshah Digital Platform
99 Mr Govind Behera News 6
100 Mr Manoj Sahoo Nitidin
101 Mr Karunakar Sahu Anupam Bharat
102 Mr Subhranshu Sekhar Mishra Sambad
103 Mr Prabir Pradhan News18 Odia news channel
104 Mr K CH Ratnam Eenadu
105 Mr Priyadarshi Patnaik The Samaja
106 Mr Prabir Kumar Pradhan News18 (Odia)
107 Mr Naresh Behera Odisha File
108 Mr Gobind Behera Odisha Express
109 Mr Manas Ranjan Jaipuria Zee News Odisha
110 Mr Simanchal Panda An Odia Weekly
111 Mr Pritiman Mohapatra The Times of India
112 Mr Debendra Samantaray Sambad
113 Mr Adwaita Prasad Biswal Shramika Malika
114 Mr Manoj Beborta News18
115 Mr Kishore Chandra Das Samaja
116 Mr D Shankar Rao Sakshi
117 Mr Sudam Charan Nayak Prameya
118 Mr Bhanu Prakash Rath Naxatra News
Puducherry 119 Mr K Dharmaraj Polimer TV 120 Mr Bharat Polimer TV
Punjab 121 Mr Ashwani Kapoor Punjab Kesari 122 Mr Naresh Bajaj Sach Kahoon
123 Mr S K Vyas Punjabnewsexpresscom
Rajasthan 124 Mr Anil Varshney Senior Journalist 125 Mr Sanjay Bohra Senior Journalist
Tamil Nadu 126 Mr E Velmurugan Cameraman/Raj TV Page 3 of 5
Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 127 Mr VShrikanth PTI
128 Mr Ramanathan Reporter Private News Channel
129 Mr Florent C Pereira Journalist-actor
130 Mr K V Anand Photo-Journalist turned Director
131 Mr T Denson NA
132 Mr S Nambirajan NA
Telangana 133 Mr Chintha Nagaraju Eenadu 134 Mr K Amaranath NIJU
135 Mr P Ramesh Freelance
136 Mr Bura Ramesh Freelance
137 Mr Jayaprakash Freelance
138 Mr Srinivas Andhra Jyoti
139 Mr Sainath 99tv
140 Mr Madiraju Giri ABN Andhra Jyothi
141 Mr Ramzan Ali Eenadu
142 Mr Syed Shabaz TTV
143 Mr Beesam Laxminarayana Andhra Jyothi
144 Mr Ponnam Praveen Kumar T News
145 Mr Kamagoni Ravindranath Namaste Telangana
146 Mr N Satyanarayana Mana Telangana
147 Mr KTandava Krishna Eenadu
148 Mr GYashwanth Raja TV 9,
149 Mr Syed Mohiuddin Siasat
150 Mr V Srinivas Rao BTV
151 Mr D Sheshagiri Rao Andhra Jyothi
152 Mr B Laxmikanth Namaste Telangana
153 Mr A Shekhar Sakshi
154 Mr KVenugopal TV 5,
155 Mr Algot Gnaneshwar TG 24TV
156 Mr K Srinivas Hindi Milap
157 Mr Talari Shyam Manam
158 Mr P shyam Velugu
159 Mr Thummala Narsimha Frankly Speaking- Youtube
160 Mr Sridhar Dharmasanam Maa Hyderabad
161 Mr Sammi Reddy Vaartha
162 Mr Kondra Srinivas Goud Hindi Milap
163 Mr Ramachandra Rao Sakshi
164 Ms Kalpana Bathukamma TV
165 Mr D Manoj TV5 news
166 B Ramakrishna Andhra Jyothi
167 Ahmed Mohiuddin Senior Photo Journalist
168 Gajula Vijay NTV
169 Mr D Ashok Andhra Bhoomi
170 Mr R Nagaraju Vaartha
Tripura 171 Mr Jitendra Debbarma Chini Khorang Page 4 of 5
Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 172 Mr Tanmoy Chakraborty Local Digital News Channel
Uttar Pradesh 173 Ms Tavishi Srivastva The Pioneer 174 Mr Neelanshu Shukla India Today
175 Mr Vinay Srivastava Freelance
176 Mr Pankaj Kulshreshtha -NA-
177 Mr Pankaj Shukla Rajsatta Express
178 Mr Ami Adhar Nidar Dainik Jagran
179 Mr Himanshu Joshi UNI
180 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran
181 Mr Pramod Shrivastava NA
182 Mr Durga Prasad Shukla Amar Ujala
183 Mr Sachchidananda Gupta “Sacche” Jadid Amal
184 Mr Brijendra Patel Hindustan
185 Mr Shivanandan Sahu Punjab Kesari Digital
186 Mr Prashant Saxena Digital Journalist
187 Mr Rohitash Gupta Freelance
188 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran
189 Mr Raju Mishra Niwan Times
190 Mr Anil Srivastava Dainik Jagran
191 Mr Saket Suman Janta TV
192 Mr Pawan Mishra -NA-
193 Mr Kushal Khare Dainik Jagran
194 Ms Nootan Saxena Freelance
195 Ms Nikita Tomar Sahara News
196 Mr Pramod Shrivastava Senior Journalist
197 Mr Chandan Pratap Singh NA
198 Mr Mukesh Mishra Senior Journalist
199 Mr Ramendra Singh Senior Journalist
200 Mr Ram Naresh Mishra Senior Journalist
201 Mr Hemant Kaushal CNN News 18
202 Mr Shesh Narain Singh NA
203 Mr Subhash Mishra Times of India
204 Mr Kaushal Kishore NA
205 Mr Rajeev Mittal Senior Journalist
206 Mr Waqar Rizvi Avadhnama
207 Mr Arvind Shukla Hindustan
208 Mr Sant Sharan Awasthi Nai Duniya
Uttarakhand 209 Mr Satya Prakash Asmin Senior Journalist West Bengal 210 Mr Ronny Roy Aajkaal 211 Mr Kishore Bhimani Cricket journalist
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