List of 310 Journalists who lost their lives due to COVID-19. (Updated until June 9, 2021)

Andhra Pradesh 1 M Parthasarathy CVR News Channel 2 Narayanam Seshacharyulu 3 Bhannu Prakash Rath Doordarshan Anchor 4 Sumit Onca 5 Gopi Sakshi 6 Ravindranath N Sandadi 7 Gopi Yadav Tv9 Telugu 8 S. Mohanrao 9 J Dayanadh Doordarshan 10 Y Chetana Varadhi 11 Damaraju Ramachandra Rao The Viswasam Voice 12 Gandhavalla Koteswara rao Freelance 13 Paidi Lakshmanarao The Naivedyam 14 Yerukola nageswara rao 15 Surya Prakash Vikas parvada 16 P Tataiah Ongole 17 Chandrashekar Naidu NTV 18 Srinivasa Rao Prajashakti Daily 19 Golap Saikia AIR 20 Dhaneshwar Rabha Rural Reporter 21 Ashim Dutta - 22 Mr Golap Saikia Senior Journalist 23 Jadu Chutia Moranhat Press Club President 24 Aiyushman Dutta Freelance 25 Homen Borgohain Senior Journalist and Author 26 Shivacharan Kalita Senior Journalist Bihar 27 Ram Prakash Gupta Danik Jagran 28 Vidyanand Jha TOI (rtd) 29 Ravineshwar Dayal Senior Journalist 30 Krishna Mohan Sharma Times of 31 Arun Kumar Verma Prasar Bharti 32 Mr Arun Kumar Verma Senior Journalist Chandigarh 33 Davinder Pal Singh PTC News Chhattisgarh 34 Ganesh Tiwari Senior Journalist 35 Pradeep Arya Journalist and Cartoonist Delhi 36 Yogesh Kumar(detected posthumously) Doordarshan 37 Radhakrishna Muralidhar The Wire Page 1 of 12

Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 38 Chandan Jaiswal Navodaya Times 39 Vikas Sharma Republic Bharat 40 Jamal Ahmad PTI(retired) 41 Ajay Kumar Choudhary The Pioneer 42 Nikita Tomar Veteran Photographer 43 Nilakshi Bhattacharya Times Now 44 Kalyan Barooha 45 Anirban Bora Economic Times 46 Kanupriya Former Doordarshan Anchor 47 Zeyaul Haque Veteran journalist 48 Sanjeev Kumar Gupta 49 Pradeep Marshal Senior Journalist 50 Vikas Trivedi Aajtak 51 Arun Pandey Sahara News 52 P L Razdan Senior Broadcaster 53 Rajender Upadhya IIS 54 Shankar Suman P7news 55 Umashankar Sonthalia Fame India 56 Jarnail Singh Senior Journalist 57 Sunil Jain Financial Express 58 Sudesh Vasudev CNN News18 59 Sushil Sharma Defence Monitor 60 Kapil Datta Times 61 Ashish Yechury News Laundry 62 Chanchal Pal Chauhan Times of India 63 Manglesh Dabral Freelance 64 Rajiv Katara Editor, Kadambini Magazine 65 Mr Manglesh Dabral Freelance 66 Kakoli Bhattacharya The Guardian 67 Ram Naresh Sinha Sandesh Gujarat 68 Shailesh Raval Freelance , ex- India Today magzine 69 Yogesh Sharma Chaupal Chronicle 70 Vinod Gajjar ABP Asmita 71 Manish Macwan Senior Journalist 72 Jignesh Mori VTV Gujarati channel. 73 Mahesh Trivedi Madhyam 74 Pratap Tarachand Shah Former Journalist Haryana 75 Purushottam Narayan Singh Senior Journalist 76 Rakesh Taneja - 77 Vijay Mishra Hindu Ki lalkar 78 Sidharth Sharma Samachar 79 Darshan Lal asija Ajit Samachar 80 Purshotum Sharma 81 Ravinder sahini Haryana Ki Awaz 82 Dalbir bhayana Pathak Paksh

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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 83 Anil Sihag Aajtak 84 Surender Marwah Karnal Bhumi 85 Ashok Arora Dainik Tribune Himachal Pradesh 86 Ravinder Kumar Jammu and Kashmir 87 Muhmmad Shafi Naqsbandi Jehadi Akbar Jharkhand 88 Mritunjay Srivastava Aajtak 89 Vijay Rajak 90 Rajesh Pati News11 Bharat channel 91 Tripurari Singh - 92 Ashutosh Choudhary - 93 Chittaranjan Jha, Dainik Bhaskar. 94 Jugal Kishore Hindustan Karnataka 95 Somashekhar Yadavatti Samayukta Karnataka 96 Gowripura Chandru Vijay Karnataka 97 Sarat Chandra Mangaraj Senior Journalist 98 Prakash Deshpande Senior Journalist 99 Jayatheerth Kagalkar 100 Pavan Hettur Kerala 101 Vipinchand News 102 D Vijayamohan Sr. Coordinating Editor, Madhya Pradesh 103 Rajesh Mishra Agniban newspaper 104 Baboolal Goverdhan Joshi Hockey Statistician / Reporter 105 Mahendra Gagan Senior Journalist 106 Shivdan Singh Sikarwar Rashtriya Mail 107 Manoj Singh Rajput Khabarjal 108 Sushil Tiwari Dainik Bhaskar (Jabalpur) 109 Praveen Shrivastava Freelance 110 Rajesh Itouria public relations officer 111 Trilok Ramnekar SMBC Insight news 112 Tajnoor Khan Freelance 113 Anurag Pateriya Senior Journalist 114 Virendra Shahi Navbharat 115 Prakash Biyani Senior Journalist 116 Vipin Parihar Photojournalist 117 Kamal Dixit Freelance 118 Manoj Binwal Prajatantra 119 Harish Choubey Dainik Bhaskar 120 Akash Saxena Freelance 121 Dilip Jain State Head - 122 Prabhu joshi Freelance 123 Dharmendra Chourey Sani Express. 124 Rajkumar Keswani Senior Journalist Maharahtra 125 Sabaji Mohan Palkar ANI 126 Sadanand Shinde Navakal 127 Santosh Pawar Senior Journalaist

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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 128 Shyam Sharma Mayapuri 129 Mohan Ayyer Senior Film Journalist 130 Shashi Baliga Senor Journalist 131 Ruchir Mishra Times of India - Sports Journalist 132 Dr Sumit Ghoshal Business India 133 Raju Salvi Journalist with Maratha Daily 134 Chandi Dutt Shukla Dainik Bhaskar 135 Sandip Jagdale 136 Saroj Tripathi Senior Journalist 137 Dadasaheb Ban Lokasha newspaper 138 Harishchandra Dhaware Rajdharma 139 Radhakrishnan Rajaram Narwekar Senior Journlaist 140 Kailash Dethe newspaper 141 Fatima R. Zakaria Freelance 142 Pandurang Raikar TV9 143 Kailassinh Pardeshi Saamana 144 Roshan Dias TV9 145 Rahul Dolare - 146 Sachin Shinde Navakal 147 Sukhnandan Gavai Ulhasnagar daily 148 Vivek Bendre 149 Jairam Sawant Dainik Sagar 150 Haresh Munwani Veteran sports journalist 151 Javed Jivani Former Arab News staffer 152 Ashok Churi Palghar Times 153 K M Srivastava Senior Film Journalist Manipur 154 Sagolshem Hemant Senior Journalist 155 Bijaya Yumlembam All India Radio. 156 Jatish Khamari 157 Amjad Badshah Digital Platform - NFTV 158 Manoj Sahoo Nitidin 159 Karunakar Sahu Anupam Bharat 160 K. CH. Ratnam Eenadu 161 Priyadarshi Patnaik 162 Naresh Behera Odisha File 163 Gobind Behera Odisha Express 164 Manas Ranjan Jaipuria Zee News Odisha 165 Simanchal Panda An Odia Weekly 166 Pritiman Mohapatra 167 Debendra Samantaray Sambad 168 Adwaita Prasad Biswal Shramika Malika 169 Manoj Beborta News18 170 Subhranshu Sekhar Mishra Sambad 171 Pradeep Kishore Sahu Sambad 172 Kishore Chandra Das Samaja

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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 173 D. Shankar Rao Sakshi 174 Sudam Charan Nayak 175 Bhanu Prakash Rath Naxatra News 176 Sumanta Mohanty Kanak News 177 Kailash Chandra Sahoo 178 Ratikant Bal Ekamra TV 179 Bishnu Prasad Patra Odisha Bhaskar 180 Kishore Chandra Dash Samaja 181 Sabnam Sirin Radio 90.4/SOA FM Radio 182 Aasutosh Behera Sarbasadharana 183 Sangram Keshari Mohapatra Freelance 184 Aditya Sahu Freelance 185 Sanatan Jena Sales officer, . 186 Basant Das Senior Journalist 187 Govinda Behera News 6 188 Prabir Kumar Pradhan News18 (Odia) Puducherry 189 K Dharmaraj Polimer TV 190 Bharath Polimer TV 191 L Ramesh Maalai Tamizhagam Punjab 192 Ashwani Kapoor Punjab 193 Naresh Bajaj SachKahoon 194 SK Vyas Punjabnewsexpress.com. Rajasthan 195 Anil Varshney Senior Journalist 196 Sanjay Bohra Senior Journalaist Tamil Nadu 197 V.Shrikanth PTI 198 Ramanathan Reporter Private News Channel 199 K.V. Anand Photojournalist, Cinematographer and Director 200 T Denson Kanyakumari District Press Club 201 S. Nambirajan Senior Journalist 202 Chandrasekaran Puthiya Thalaimurai 203 Nallathambi NewsJ TV 204 M. Vijayakumar Ananda Vikatan 205 Pradeep Kumar The Hindu MetroPlus 206 Guru Rajendran Producer of Local News Channel 207 E Velmurugan Cameraman, Raj TV 208 Florent C Pereira Journalist-actor 209 Chintha Nagaraju Eenadu 210 K Amaranath News of Indian Journalists Union 211 P Ramesh Freelance 212 D Manoj TV5 news 213 Ramchandra Rao Sakshi 214 srinivas Andhra Jyothi Telugu Daily 215 Kalpana Bathukamma TV 216 Jayaprakash Freelance 217 Sainath 99tv

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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 218 D Ashok 219 Bura Ramesh Freelance 220 R Nagaraju 221 B Ramakrishna Andhra Jyothi 222 Ahmed Mohiuddin Senior Photojournalist 223 Gajula VIjay NTV 224 Beesam Laxminarayana Andhra Jyothi 225 Ponnam Praveen Kumar T News, 226 Kamagoni Ravindranath Namaste Telangana 227 N. Satyanarayana 228 K.Tandava Krishna Eenadu 229 G.Yashwanth Raja TV 9, 230 Syed Mohiuddin Siasat 231 V. Srinivas Rao BTV 232 D. Sheshagiri Rao Andhra Jyothi 233 B. Laxmikanth Namaste Telangana, 234 A. Shekhar Reporter, Sakshi, 235 K.Venugopal TV 5, 236 Algot Gnaneshwar TG 24TV 237 K. Srinivas Hindi Milap 238 Talari Shyam Manam 239 P Shyam Velugu 240 Thummala Narsimha Frankly Speaking- Youtube 241 Kaleswaram sandeep V6 242 Tipurana Srinivas Rao Desginer 243 Purna Chander Rao 365 news 244 Damodar Janam Sakshi 245 Veera Chary STV 246 Srinivas Andhra Jyothi 247 Shanker Andhra Prabha 248 Shankar Namaste Telangana 249 Madiraju Giri ABN Andhra Jyothi 250 Ramzan Ali Eenadu 251 Syed Shabaz TTV 252 Sridhar Dharmasanam Maa 253 Sammi Reddy Vaartha 254 Kondra Srinivas Goud Hindi Milap Tripura 255 Jitendra Debbarma Video journalist/Chini Khorang Uttar Pradesh 256 Anil Srivastava UNI 257 Rohitash Gupta Freelance 258 Ankit Shukla Dainik Jagran 259 Raju Mishra Niwan Times 260 Kushal Khare Danik Jagran 261 Nootan Saxena Freelance 262 Brijendra Patel Hindustan

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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] 263 Pramod Shrivastava Senior Journalist 264 Pawan Mishra - 265 Nikita Tomar Sahara News 266 Chandan Pratap Singh - 267 Hemant Kaushal CNN News18 268 Dr Ram Naresh Mishra Senior Journalist 269 Ramendra Singh Senior Journalist 270 Shesh Narain Singh Senior Journalist 271 Subhash Mishra TOI 272 Kaushal Kishore Uttar Pradesh Shramjeevi Patarkar Union 273 Salim Sultan Senior Jounrlaist 274 Shafi Ahmad Saifi Hindustan 275 Badri Vishal Senior Journalist 276 Ram Naresh Tripathi Veteran journalist 277 Ramnaresh Tiwari Freelance 278 Ajay Shankar Tiwari 279 Amit Bharadwaj Photojournalist, Dainik Jagran 280 Madhusudan Tripathi Amrit Prabhat newspaper 281 Ramendra Singh Hindustan 282 Gopi alias Jaswinder Video Journalist (Local Channel) 283 Salauddin Sheikh Jansandesh Times 284 Govind Bharadwaj - 285 Tavishi Srivastva The Pioneer 286 Neelanshu Shukla India Today 287 Vinay Srivastava Freelance 288 Pankaj Kulshreshtha Dy. News Editor, Dainik Jagran 289 Pankaj Shukla Editor in Chief, Rajsatta Express 290 Ami Adhar Nidar Dainik Jagran 291 Himanshu Joshi Bureau Chief of UNI 292 Durga Prasad Shukla Amar Ujala 293 Sachchidanand Gupta’s ‘Sacche’ Jadid Amal 294 Shivanandan Sahu Digital 295 Prashant Saxena Digital Journalist 296 Saket Suman Janta TV 297 Waqar Rizvi Avadh-ma 298 Arvind Shukla Hindustan 299 Sant Sharan Awasthi Nai Duniya 300 Rajeev Mittal Senior Journalist 301 Rohit Sardana AajTak 302 Sumit Josh InShorts 303 Mukesh Mishra Senior Journalist Uttarakhand 304 Satya Prakash Asmin Senior Journalist 305 Rajendra Joshi Senior Journalist 306 Diwakar Bhatt Aadharsheela 307 Rahul Joshi Amrit Vichar newspaper

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Rate The Debate, Institute of Perception Studies H-10, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi – 110014 | www.ipsdelhi.org.in | [email protected] West Bengal 308 Anjan Bandyopadhyay Zee 24 Ghanta 309 Ronny Roy Sr. Photojournalist, 310 Kishore Bhimani Cricket journalist

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