Exam 5: Km Mathew: The Doyen of Malayalam Journalism and Chief Editor of Malayala Manorama

………………., a student of the erstwhile Regional Engineering College (presently the National Institute of Technology Calicut), was arrested by the Kerala Police on March 1, 1976, during the nationwide Emergency in India, for alleged Naxal association.

………………..had been the editor of 'Vanitha' the women's journal from Manorama Group till her death in 2003.

12th President of IFWJ was…………….

…………………… was the Home Minister during the emergency. He resigned from the post of the Chief Minister of Kerala in 1978 due to adverse judgement in the case.

…………………, who used to head the Indian Express group, made an aborted attempt in the 1960s to control the Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO).

K M Mathew was doyen of Malayalam journalism and chief editor of………

Born as the eighth son of K M Mammen Mappillai and Kunjaadamma on January 2, 1917, K.M Mathew started his career as a planter in Chikamagalur and later migrated to ……………..as a businessman looking after family business.

………………took over as Malayala Manorama's Chief Editor on the death of Mr Cheriyan in 1973.

…………………has been the president of the Indian Newspaper Society; chairman of PTI; founder trusty and chairman of Press Institute of India and Research Institute for Newspaper Development; executive committee member of the Federation of International Newspaper Publishers and Editors based in France and a consultant of International Press Institute among other positions.

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since…………...

………………..is credited with the introduction of the concept of editionalising with larger share for local news and reader-friendly packaging through professional page designing in Manorama, which in turn impacted the entire newspaper industry in Kerala.

………………. has penned two books, an autobiographical "Ettamathe Mothiram" and "Annamma", written in memory of his wife.

…………………is the means of informing as well as influencing the general public to buy products or services through visual or oral messages.

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in……………, United Kingdom and a division of Reuters.

The Commission on freedom of the press (1942-1947), known as the ………………… Commission.

AFP is headquartered in………………., with regional offices in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong, and Washington, D.C., and bureaus in 150 countries.

The Rajan case refers to the death of P. Rajan, a student of the erstwhile Regional Engineering College, Calicut, as a result of torture in local police custody in Kerala state, during the nationwide Emergency in India in………………...

K.M Mathew married……………., a pioneer of culinary literature in Malayalam in 1942.

K.M.Mathew inherited the family owned Manorma, started in …………….. by his great uncle Kandathil Varughese Mappillai .

The largest journalist organization in the non-aligned world is the Indian Federation of Working Journalists, founded in …….on 28 October 1950.