List of 253 Journalists who lost their lives due to COVID-19. (Updated until May 19, 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 Ravindranath N Sandadi 7 Mr Gopi Yadav Tv9 Telugu 8 Mr P Tataiah -NA-
9 Mr Bhanu Prakash Rath Doordarshan
10 Mr Sumit Onka The Pioneer
11 Mr Gopi Sakshi
Assam 12 Mr Golap Saikia All India Radio 13 Mr Jadu Chutia Moranhat Press club president
14 Mr Horen Borgohain Senior Journalist 15 Mr Shivacharan Kalita Senior Journalist 16 Mr Dhaneshwar Rabha Rural Reporter
17 Mr Ashim Dutta -NA-
18 Mr Aiyushman Dutta Freelance
Bihar 19 Mr Krishna Mohan Sharma Times of India 20 Mr Ram Prakash Gupta Danik Jagran
21 Mr Arun Kumar Verma Prasar Bharti
Chandigarh 22 Mr Davinder Pal Singh PTC News Chhattisgarh 23 Mr Pradeep Arya Journalist and Cartoonist 24 Mr Ganesh Tiwari Senior Journalist
Delhi 25 Mr Kapil Datta Hindustan Times 26 Mr Yogesh Kumar Doordarshan
27 Mr Radhakrishna Muralidhar The Wire
28 Mr Ashish Yechury News Laundry
29 Mr Chanchal Pal Chauhan Times of India
30 Mr Manglesh Dabral Freelance
31 Mr Rajiv Katara Kadambini Magazine
32 Mr Vikas Sharma Republic Bharat
33 Mr Chandan Jaiswal Navodaya Times
34 Umashankar Sonthalia Fame India 35 Jarnail Singh Former Journalist 36 Sunil Jain Financial Express
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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 Sudesh Vasudev CNN News18 38 Ram Naresh Sinha Sandesh 39 Mr Kakoli Bhattacharya NA
40 Mr Jamal Ahmad PTI (Retd)
41 Mr Ajay Kumar Choudhary The Pioneer
42 Mr Vijay Saluja Veteran Phorographer
43 Ms Nilakshi Bhattacharya Times of India
44 Mr Kalyan Barooha The Assam Tribune
45 Mr Anirban Bora Economic Times
46 Ms Kanupriya Former Anchor, Doordarshan
47 Mr Zeyaul Haque Senior Journalist
48 Mr Pradeep Marshal Senior Journalist
49 Mr Sanjeev Kumar Gupta Lokmat
50 Mr Vikas Trivedi Aajtak
51 Mr P L Razdan Senior Broadcaster
52 Mr Rajender Upadhya IIS
53 Mr Shankar Suman P7news
54 Mr Arun Pandey Sahara News
Gujarat 55 Mr Shailesh Raval Freelance 56 Mr Yogesh Sharma Chaupal Chronicle
57 Mr Vinod Gajjar ABP Asmita
Haryana 58 Mr Rakesh Taneja NA Himachal Pradesh 59 Mr Ravinder Kumar Dainik Jagran Jammu & Kashmir 60 Mr Muhammad Shafi Naqsbandi Jehadi Akbar Jharkhand 61 Mr Mrityunjay Srivastava Aaj Tak 62 Mr Vijay Rajak Dainik Bhaskar 63 Mr Rajesh Pati News11 Bharat Karnataka 64 Mr Pavan Hettur Prajavani 65 Mr Sarat Chandra Mangaraj Senior Journalist 66 Mr Prakash Deshpande Senior Journalist 67 Mr Jayatheerth Kagalkar Samyukta Karnataka 68 Mr Somashekhar Yadavatti Samayukta Karnataka
69 Mr Gowripura Chandru Vijay Karnataka
Kerala 70 Mr D Vijayamohan Malayala Manorama 71 Mr Vipinchand Mathrubhumi News
Madhya Pradesh 72 Mr Kamal Dixit Freelance 73 Mr Manoj Binwal Prajatantra
74 Mr Harish Choubey Dainik Bhaskar
75 Mr Akash Saxena Freelance
76 Mr Rajesh Mishra Agniban
77 Mr Mahendra Gagan Senior Journalist
78 Mr Shivdan Singh Sikarwar Rashtriya Hindi Mail
79 Mr Prabhu Joshi Freelancer
80 Mr Anurag Pateriya Senior Journalist 81 Mr Virendra Shahi Navbharat
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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 82 Mr Manoj Singh Rajput Khabarjal
83 Mr Baboolal Goverdhan Joshi Hockey Statistician / Reporter
84 Mr Sushil Tiwari Dainik Bhaskar
85 Mr Dilip Jain Saamana
86 Mr Praveen Shrivastava Freelance
87 Mr Rajesh Itouria public relations officer
88 Mr Trilok Ramnekar SMBC Insight news
89 Mr Tajnoor Khan Freelance
90 Mr Dharmendra Chourey Sani Express
Maharashtra 91 Ms Fatima R Zakaria Freelance 92 Mr Pandurang Raikar TV9
93 Mr Sabaji Mohan Palkar ANI
94 Mr Kailassinh Pardeshi Saamana
95 Mr Jairam Sawant Dainik Sagar
96 Mr Haresh Munwani Veteran sports journalist
97 Mr Javed Jivani Former Arab News staffer
98 Mr Chandi Dutt Shukla Dainik Bhaskar 99 Mr Sandip Jagdale Sakal 100 Mr Ashok Churi Palghar Times
101 Mr Roshan Dias TV9
102 Mr Rahul Dolare NA
103 Mr Vivek Bendre The Hindu
104 Mr Sachin Shine NA
105 Mr Sukhnandan Gavai NA
106 Mr Sadanand Shinde Navakal
107 Mr Santosh Pawar Senior Journalist
108 Mr Shyam Sharma Mayapuri
109 Mr K M Srivastava Senior Film Journalist
110 Mr Mohan Ayyer Senior Film Journalist
111 Ms Shashi Baliga Senior Journalist
112 Dr Sumit Ghoshal Business India
113 Mr Raju Salvi A Maratha Daily
114 Mr Ruchir Mishra Times of India
Manipur 115 Mr Bijaya Yumlembam All India Radio. Odisha 116 Mr Jatish Khamari Sambad 117 Mr Amjad Badshah Digital Platform
118 Mr Govind Behera News 6
119 Mr Manoj Sahoo Nitidin
120 Mr Karunakar Sahu Anupam Bharat
121 Mr Subhranshu Sekhar Mishra Sambad
122 Mr Prabir Pradhan News18 Odia news channel
123 Mr K CH Ratnam Eenadu
124 Mr Priyadarshi Patnaik The Samaja
125 Mr Prabir Kumar Pradhan News18 (Odia)
126 Mr Naresh Behera Odisha File
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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 127 Mr Gobind Behera Odisha Express
128 Mr Sumanta Mohanty Kanak News 129 Mr Kailash Chandra Sahoo Pragativadi 130 Mr Ratikant Bal Ekamra TV 131 Mr Bishnu Prasad Patra Odisha Bhaskar 132 Mr Manas Ranjan Jaipuria Zee News Odisha
133 Mr Simanchal Panda An Odia Weekly
134 Mr Pritiman Mohapatra The Times of India
135 Mr Debendra Samantaray Sambad
136 Mr Adwaita Prasad Biswal Shramika Malika
137 Mr Manoj Beborta News18
138 Mr Kishore Chandra Das Samaja
139 Mr D Shankar Rao Sakshi
140 Mr Sudam Charan Nayak Prameya
141 Mr Bhanu Prakash Rath Naxatra News
Puducherry 142 Mr K Dharmaraj Polimer TV 143 Mr Bharat Polimer TV
Punjab 144 Mr Ashwani Kapoor Punjab Kesari 145 Mr Naresh Bajaj Sach Kahoon
146 Mr S K Vyas Punjabnewsexpresscom
Rajasthan 147 Mr Anil Varshney Senior Journalist 148 Mr Sanjay Bohra Senior Journalist
Tamil Nadu 149 Mr E Velmurugan Cameraman/Raj TV 150 Mr VShrikanth PTI
151 Mr Ramanathan Reporter Private News Channel
152 Mr Florent C Pereira Journalist-actor
153 Mr K V Anand Photo-Journalist turned Director
154 Mr T Denson NA
155 Mr Chandrasekaran Puthiya Thalaimurai 156 Mr S Nambirajan NA
Telangana 157 Mr Chintha Nagaraju Eenadu News of Indian Journalists 158 Mr K Amaranath Union 159 Mr P Ramesh Freelance
160 Mr Bura Ramesh Freelance
161 Mr Jayaprakash Freelance
162 Mr Srinivas Andhra Jyoti
163 Mr Sainath 99tv
164 Mr Madiraju Giri ABN Andhra Jyothi
165 Mr Ramzan Ali Eenadu
166 Mr Syed Shabaz TTV
167 Mr Beesam Laxminarayana Andhra Jyothi
168 Mr Ponnam Praveen Kumar T News
169 Mr Kamagoni Ravindranath Namaste Telangana
170 Mr N Satyanarayana Mana Telangana
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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 171 Mr KTandava Krishna Eenadu
172 Mr GYashwanth Raja TV 9,
173 Mr Syed Mohiuddin Siasat
174 Mr V Srinivas Rao BTV
175 Mr D Sheshagiri Rao Andhra Jyothi
176 Mr B Laxmikanth Namaste Telangana
177 Mr A Shekhar Sakshi
178 Mr KVenugopal TV 5,
179 Mr Algot Gnaneshwar TG 24TV
180 Mr K Srinivas Hindi Milap
181 Mr Talari Shyam Manam
182 Mr P shyam Velugu
183 Mr Thummala Narsimha Frankly Speaking- Youtube
184 Mr Sridhar Dharmasanam Maa Hyderabad
185 Mr Sammi Reddy Vaartha
186 Mr Kondra Srinivas Goud Hindi Milap
187 Mr Ramachandra Rao Sakshi
188 Ms Kalpana Bathukamma TV
189 Mr D Manoj TV5 news
190 Mr B Ramakrishna Andhra Jyothi
191 Mr Ahmed Mohiuddin Senior Photo Journalist
192 Mr Gajula Vijay NTV
193 Mr D Ashok Andhra Bhoomi
194 Mr Kaleswaram Sandeep V6
195 Mr R Nagaraju Vaartha
Tripura 196 Mr Jitendra Debbarma Chini Khorang 197 Mr Tanmoy Chakraborty Local Digital News Channel
Uttar Pradesh 198 Ms Tavishi Srivastva The Pioneer 199 Mr Neelanshu Shukla India Today
200 Mr Vinay Srivastava Freelance
201 Mr Pankaj Kulshreshtha -NA-
202 Mr Pankaj Shukla Rajsatta Express
203 Mr Ami Adhar Nidar Dainik Jagran
204 Mr Himanshu Joshi UNI
205 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran
206 Mr Pramod Shrivastava NA
207 Mr Durga Prasad Shukla Amar Ujala
208 Mr Sachchidananda Gupta “Sacche” Jadid Amal
209 Mr Brijendra Patel Hindustan
210 Mr Shivanandan Sahu Punjab Kesari Digital
211 Mr Prashant Saxena Digital Journalist
212 Mr Rohitash Gupta Freelance
213 Mr Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran
214 Mr Raju Mishra Niwan Times
215 Mr Anil Srivastava Dainik Jagran
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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 216 Mr Saket Suman Janta TV
217 Mr Pawan Mishra -NA-
220 Ms Nikita Tomar Sahara News
221 Mr Pramod Shrivastava Senior Journalist
222 Mr Chandan Pratap Singh NA
223 Mr Mukesh Mishra Senior Journalist
224 Mr Ramendra Singh Senior Journalist
225 Mr Ram Naresh Mishra Senior Journalist
226 Mr Hemant Kaushal CNN News 18
227 Mr Shesh Narain Singh NA
228 Mr Subhash Mishra Times of India
229 Mr Kaushal Kishore NA
230 Mr Rajeev Mittal Senior Journalist
231 Mr Waqar Rizvi Avadhnama
232 Mr Arvind Shukla Hindustan
233 Mr Sant Sharan Awasthi Nai Duniya
234 Mr Shafi Ahmad Saifi Hindustan 235 Mr Badri Vishal Senior Journalist 236 Mr Ram Naresh Tripathi Veteran journalist 237 Mr Ramnaresh Tiwari Freelance 238 Mr Ajay Shankar Tiwari Amar Ujala 239 Mr Amit Bharadwaj Photo-Journalist, Dainik Jagran 240 Mr Madhusudan Tripathi Amrit Prabhat 241 Mr Ramendra Singh Hindustan 242 Mr Gopi alias Jaswinder Video Journalist 243 Mr Salauddin Sheikh Jansandesh Times 244 Mr Rohit Sardana AajTak 245 Mr Sumit Josh InShorts 246 Mr Salim Sultan Senior Journalist
Uttarakhand 247 Mr Satya Prakash Asmin Senior Journalist 248 Mr Rajendra Joshi Senior Journalist
249 Mr Diwakar Bhatt Aadharsheela
250 Mr Rahul Joshi Amrit Vichar newspaper
West Bengal 251 Mr Ronny Roy Aajkaal 252 Mr Kishore Bhimani Cricket journalist
253 Mr Anjan Bandyopadhyay Zee 24 Ghanta
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