A newsroom that values honesty, dedication and creativity
Our Team
The Printers Mysore is led by a management council and an executive team. The Management Council comprises three full-time directors K N Tilak Kumar, K N Shanth Kumar and Parul Shah.
K N Tilak Kumar
Joint Managing Director
Tilak Kumar has nearly four decades of experience in the newspaper industry. He has been on the management at The Printers Mysore as a director since 1978. Known for his dynamism, he has been responsible for the growth of Prajavani in rural pockets of Karnataka. He is a former president of the Indian Newspaper Society and has been affiliated with other industry bodies. Tilak also brings with him the experience of chairing the KNG Trust started by his grandfather, late K N Guruswamy, a toddy businessman, publisher and philanthropist. The KNG Trust is a not-for-profit entity that operates the Ashram School, Deccan International School and Nettakallappa Aquatic Center.
K N Shanth Kumar
Director
Shanth Kumar has been a printing technologist, editor and director with The Printers Mysore since 1983. He has driven the editorial coverage at Prajavani and helped it retain a leadership position in Karnataka over the last decade. Under him, the daily has seen several developments, including a redesign and new supplements. Shanth is a director of the Press Trust of India, where he recently completed his term as chairman and Wan-Ifra India. He is a former chairman of the Audit Bureau of Circulation. He has covered the last eight Olympics as a photojournalist for Deccan Herald and Prajavani. Shanth oversees the Nettakallappa Sports Foundation, a charitable trust started by his father K A Nettakallappa, that promotes the Deccan Athletic Club and provides scholarships to athletes. He was a former board member of the Indian Golf Union (IGU) where he promoted junior golf in India. He has the distinction of representing India in golf as a non-playing captain at the Asian Games in 2002.
Parul Anant Shah
Director
Parul Shah has been a director at The Printers Mysore since 2001. She has overseen the development of the Deccan Herald student edition over the last decade.
K N Hari Kumar
Advisor to Directors
Hari Kumar is the advisor to the Management Council as well as the next generation of the Kanekal Nettakallappa family, who are in various executive roles at the group. Hari Kumar is the former editor-in-chief of Deccan Herald, Prajavani, Sudha and Mayura and former chairman and managing director of The Printers Mysore, which he has been a part of since 1978. He is a journalist and writer with interests in history and economics. He has edited and contributed to books on free speech, media freedom and jurisprudence in India.
Sitaraman Shankar
CEO
In 25 years of journalism, Shankar has accumulated a wide range of experiences in developed, emerging and frontier markets, across the various disciplines -- reporting, feature writing, editing, news editing, and managing, working first at India's Economic Times and then with Reuters in Mumbai, Frankfurt, London and Dubai. Other locations he has reported out of include Moscow, Vienna and Singapore. He returned to India in July 2012 to take on a senior role at the Hindustan Times, where he oversaw its largest edition, ran coverage of the 2014 elections and trained nearly 100 colleagues. At Network18, which he joined in August 2016, he led a revamp of India's largest financial site, Moneycontrol, giving it a news focus and hiring over 50 journalists to set up a newsroom, resulting in a quadrupling in unique users and a tripling in page views.
Gururaj Shastry
Head - Production
He is a printing technologist from Institute of Printing Bangalore (1980 batch). Started his career as Process supervisor in the year 1980 with Manipal Press, Manipal. He has undergone extensive training on High-speed web offset machines, Security printing & Cheque printing at Harris Graphics, United States & CEM Milan, Europe. In his career spanning over 40 years, he worked with major Newspaper publications like The Indian Express (Bombay), The Times of India & Hindustan Times in various capacities at Mumbai, Chandigarh & Delhi. His last assignment was with Hindustan Times-Delhi as General Manager-Supply chain heading their flagship plant at Greater Noida overseeing plant operations, projects, modernization/upgradation & TCP.
Chaitanya Netkalappa
Management Executive
Chaitanya is involved in various business planning and strategy projects at The Printers Mysore and works closely with the directors. He has a degree in economics from the University of Chicago.
Sitaraman Shankar
Editor
In 25 years of journalism, Shankar has accumulated a wide range of experiences in developed, emerging and frontier markets, across the various disciplines -- reporting, feature writing, editing, news editing, and managing, working first at India's Economic Times and then with Reuters in Mumbai, Frankfurt, London and Dubai. Other locations he has reported out of include Moscow, Vienna and Singapore. He returned to India in July 2012 to take on a senior role at the Hindustan Times, where he oversaw its largest edition, ran coverage of the 2014 elections and trained nearly 100 colleagues. At Network18, which he joined in August 2016, he led a revamp of India's largest financial site, Moneycontrol, giving it a news focus and hiring over 50 journalists to set up a newsroom, resulting in a quadrupling in unique users and a tripling in page views.
K V Subramanya
Senior News Editor
As news coordinator, Subramanya liaisons with all the DH Bureaus and correspondents across the country and different sections in the newsroom involved in pre-press ops. He joined DH, Bengaluru, in 1995. After a brief stint as a business journalist, he took to political reporting, his cup of tea. Based out of Gulbarga, he covered the backward Hyderabad-Karnataka region for a year, before he joined The Hindu, Bengaluru, in 2000. He specialised as a crime and internal security reporter and wrote extensively about law and order, terrorism and Maoist activities in Karnataka and Bengaluru's underworld. Subramanya returned to DH in 2012 as News Editor. He also led the DH City Reporting team for over three years.
S R Ramakrishna
City Editor and Head of Metrolife
ramakrishna.sr@deccanherald.co.in
S R Ramakrishna joined Deccan Herald in 2016. He works with city reporting, desk and digital teams and edits stories. In an earlier stint, he was sub-editor-Deccan Herald from 1989 to 1997. He has taught at Asian College of Journalism and has worked in a variety of news environments as Resident Editor-Mid Day, Deputy Resident Editor-Bengaluru Mirror, and Senior Editor-The New Indian Express. In the online space, he was Front Page Editor of Yahoo.com, and Founder-Editor of The Music Magazine. His interests include music and translation. His books are prescribed reading at several universities.
S Raghotham
Opinion Editor (Print)
raghotham@deccanherald.co.in
S Raghotham joined Deccan Herald in August 2017. Having started his career at The Indian Express in 1996, he has worked with The Times of India, Vijay Times and Deccan Chronicle. As Opinion Editor, he runs the paper’s Edit and Panorama pages, the Sunday Spotlight and The Prism pages. With a Master’s in Defence and Security Analysis from Lancaster University, UK, he specialises in Strategic Affairs and Science and Technology and has written extensively on these issues as well as on the technology industry. In 2003-4, he was with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, where he wrote his dissertation and papers on the possibility of a nuclear rapprochement between India and the US. He considers the highlight of his career to be the series of articles he wrote during the India-US nuclear deal negotiations that argued for a tougher approach by the Indian government. In 2012, he was a Chevening Scholar in Science and Innovation Policy at Said Business School, Oxford University, UK. In 2018, he was part of the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Programme on India-US Space Cooperation.
Madhu Jawali
Sports Editor
Madhu, a Post Graduate in Mass Communication and Journalism from Karnataka University, has close to 20 years of experience in sports journalism, starting with the Asian Age in 2000. He was working with the Times of India before joining Deccan Herald in May 2016. He has covered a wide range of sports like tennis, hockey, football, swimming, golf, badminton, athletics and motor sports but cricket has been his subject of specialisation. He has covered several Test and ODI series both in India and abroad besides four World T20s and three World Cups.
Bharath Joshi
Chief of Political Bureau
Bharath Joshi has grown to believe that one who writes what one knows and sees is writing for prosperity. He started his career with The New Indian Express in September 2011 where he extensively covered the education sector. He joined The Economic Times in September 2014 to help launch its flagship Namma Bengaluru page. Since July 2017, Bharath is with the DH political bureau where he writes on the corridors of power, politics and its intersection with policy. Besides storytelling, Bharath spends time on music, books and quizzing.
Anitha Pailoor
Assistant News Editor
With over 15 years of experience in Development Journalism, Anitha currently handles DH's Insight, which delves into issues that matter; Spectrum, which explores art, culture, heritage, rural affairs and social initiatives in Karnataka; Education; and Science and Environment sections. She led Dharwad-based Centre for Agricultural Media's training programmes in farm and rural journalism for over 10 years. She was a core team member of Raita Teerpu (held in Karnataka in 2009) - the first-ever 'Farmers Jury' in the world on the orientation of contemporary agricultural research. Anitha has travelled across Karnataka studying agriculture, environment, water, rural affairs and gender issues under various fellowships such as National Media Fellowship and IWMI-TATA water fellowship.
Rashmi Vasudeva
Assistant Editor (Features)
Rashmi Vasudeva looks after Sunday Herald and Travel & Living. In a career spanning 17 years, she has written for a number of publications and New Media startups in Europe and India. Following her graduation from the Asian College of Journalism in 2000, Rashmi worked in various news and feature desks until July 2009 when she received a full scholarship to do a Master’s in media studies, which entailed studying three modules in three European universities. During her stay in Europe, she published a well-received thesis on the coverage of the 2010 Kashmir riots by Indian broadcasters. In her spare time, Rashmi writes terrible poetry and fantasises about becoming a shaman in her next life.
Anand V Yamnur
News Editor/ Chief of Bureau, Hubballi
anandyamnur@deccanherald.co.in
Anand joined Deccan Herald in the Bengaluru office. In these two decades of service, he has worked in Bengaluru, and eight years in Kalaburagi, specialising in development reporting. At present, he is News Editor and Chief of Bureau of the DH Hubballi office, which has a jurisdiction of 16 districts covering North, Central and parts of South Karnataka. Hubballi bureau is the only bureau after Bengaluru where the local pages are done (12 pages).
Before joining Deccan Herald, Anand was a guest lecturer at Karnatak University in Dharwad in Mass Communication & Journalism. He has Masters in Mass-Communication & Journalism, and in Social Work. He has been awarded with the Karnataka Media Academy award in 2015.
T R Sathish Kumar
Principal Correspondent, Mysuru
sathishkumar@deccanherald.co.in
Sathish is responsible for sourcing of news stories, articles and photographs from the old Mysuru region and for covering Mysuru city, Mysuru district, Mandya district, Chamarajanagar district and Hassan district. He has been with the organisation since April 1, 2006. He has reported on problems of the region, and on development aspects. He has done stories related to polity, culture and heritage of Mysuru.
Harsha
Chief of Bureau, Mangaluru
harsha@deccanherald.co.in
Harsha joined Deccan Herald in 2018. He has over two decades of experience in reporting and editing. Harsha believes in team work and is responsible for generating articles and photographs from Madikeri, Chickkamagaluru, Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts under Mangaluru bureau. Harsha’s strength lies in motivating his team and leveraging every opportunity to benefit individuals and communities in disadvantage. Harsha is a recipient of `Vandana’ award (2005, instituted by Rotary Club) and `BGS Education’ award (instituted by Adichunchanagiri Shikshana Trust) presented in recognition of his service to the society.
Rumah Rasaque
Head – Video Production
Rumah Rasaque joined Deccan Herald and Prajavani teams in 2018 to start in-house video production for the two newsrooms. She has over a decade of experience in the broadcast industry as well as the corporate sector.
Ravindra G Bhat
Executive Editor
ravindrabhat@prajavani.co.in
Ravindra Bhat started his career with Samyukta Karnataka as sub editor in 1990. After serving as Sub-editor/ Reporter in Udayavani, he joined Prajavani in 1995. He has had multiple roles in the publication such as Sub Editor, Davanagere district correspondent, Mysore staff correspondent and Mysore News Bureau Chief. Ravindra Bhat completed his Masters in Mass Communication and Journalism from Karnataka University, Dharawad in 1990.
M. Nagaraja
Deputy Editor
nagarajm@prajavani.co.in
After completing his education, Nagaraja started working in local dailies in Mysuru. He joined Prajavani in 1993 and worked as Reporter, Hassan district Correspondent, Chief Reporter (Bengaluru), Chief Sub Editor and Chief of News Bureau in Hubballi. He completed his Masters in Journalism from Mysuru University, Mysuru in 1987.
Avinash H. Baipadithaya
Editor - Digital PV
avinash@prajavani.co.in
After Completing graduation, he started his Journalism career in Mumbai's Kannada local daily as a sub-editor in 1996. Then moved to Mangalore and Served in local Kannada daily and also headed the Eveninger. He then joined Vijaya Karnataka in 2000 when it was launched in Mangalore. Then moved to Chennai in 2006. As Assistant Editor, he was instrumental in launching Kannada portals of MSN, Yahoo and Webdunia. Then in 2011, came back to Vijaya Karnataka as Online Editor, launching its website and App. Joined Prajavani at the end of 2019 as Editor-Digital, giving a new look and feel to the digital properties of Prajavani with his web journalism experience of more than a decade.
G D Yatish Kumar
News Editor
yatish@prajavani.co.in
G.D.Yatish Kumar hailing from Mandya, Karnataka has worked in different capacities in Prajavani for last 23 years. He is a Post-Graduate in Botany from Mysore University. He joined Prajavani in 1995 as a Reporter and is currently working as a Special Correspont, heading Bengaluru city bureau. He has participated in several WAN-IFRA training workshops and has trained in Web Journalism, Data Journalism, New Layout, news report packaging and new techniques in reporting. He worked as an Internal Enquiry Officer in few cases in the organisation. His team won one lakh rupees from Namma Bangalore Foundation in 2016 for Bangalore-centric reports. He was also honored with Media Academy award in 2016. He is an avid wildlife photographer and has travelled all over the state, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Madya Pradesh, Leh in Jammu and Kashmir for the same purpose. He has a vast collection of Wildlife photographs. He is deeply concerned about forest dwellers and has conducted free eye camp for Soliga community in Biligiri Rangana Betta with the help of the Forest Department.
Sudesha Doddapalya
News Editor
sudeshad@prajavani.co.in
Sudesh has been writing a column by name ‘ESHANYA DIKKININDA’ every fort nightly for the past 50 weeks. My passion is writing. I enjoy writing narrative stories, travelogues and articles and stories related to rural India. I love traveling and meeting new people. Recently I had been to South Africa. My favorite hobbies are reading books, listening to music and meeting interesting people. I am a post graduate in Political Science from University of Mysore.
Udayakumar N
Assistant Editor
udaykumar@prajavani.co.in
He started his career as a Reporter with Prajavani in 1992 and since then, has held various positions in the organisation. A post graduate in Social Work (MSW) and Communication studies (BS Communication) from the University of Bengaluru, Udayakumar has experience in working for PRAJAVANI SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT. He also has rich experience as Chief Correspondent for Belagavi district, as Principal Correspondent at Bengaluru, as Chief of State Bureau for reporting at Bengaluru. Udayakumar has also worked with Sudha and Mayura. He is presently a senior member of the team that looks after the Editorial/Opinion page of Prajavani. His areas of interest include Politics, Cinema, Sociology, Culture and Literature.
Nagesh Shenoy P
News Editor
nageshs@prajavani.co.in
Nagesh has been working in Prajavani since 1990 November. During his career in the organization, he has worked in Bangalore, Mysore, Gulbarga, Mangalore and Davanagere Bureaus. Owing to his special interest in sports, he has covered many National and International sports events. He was born on 6th April and holds an M.A. Journalism.
Y. G. Jagadeesha
Head - Reporting Section
jagadeesh.yg@prajavani.co.in
Has over 22 years of Journalism experience. Master of Arts in Kannada Literature from Kuvempu University, worked as a lecturer for a few years. In 1997 joined ‘Kannada Janatharanga' newspaper. Subsequently worked in Ushakirana, Udayavani, and Vijaya Karnataka as a reporter. Joined Prajavani as Special Correspondent. Now he is working as chief of the Bengaluru news bureau. Heading a dynamic team of reporters. Jagadeesh is known for some of his reports. Namely, Lokayukta's illegal mining report, Analytical Special Report on coastal communal violence. He was a keen analyst of State Budget and Politics. Authored two books. ‘ಮುತ್ತಾಗದ ಮಳೆ ಹನಿ' (short stories), ‘ಕನ್ನಡ ಕಂಡ ಕೃಷ್ಣ' (A.N. Krishnaraya life history).
Vishakha. N.
Bureau Chief, Davanagere
vishakan@prajavani.co.in
Journalist, author, movie critic, a sportswriter with 20 years of experience. He had worked with a website for 4 years before joining Prajavani in 2004. 'Best Student' awardee (in PG Diploma) of Asian College of Journalism. He holds a double Masters' degree in Kannada and Journalism. He had authored books like Sachin Tendulkar, Kanagal Prabhakar Shastri, Namma Nirdeshakiyaru, Fourth Umpire. He was in the editorial committee of Chandanavana (2000- 2010, History of Kannada Cinema). He was in the Jury panel of Karnataka State Film Award Selection Committee, 2012 and BIFFs (Bengaluru International Film Festival) 2015. He had narrated columns of famous IPS officers Mr. B.K.Shivaram and Mr. Shankar Bidari. He had also narrated columns of well-known film personalities like Mr.Rajendra Singh Babu, Mr. Dwarakish. He had translated the series of articles about Netaji written by Mrs. Chudi Shivram. Since 2018 April he is heading the Davanagere bureau.
Ganesh D. Chandanshiv
Bureau Chief, Kalaburgi
ganeshd@prajavani.co.in
Started his career with Samyukta Karnataka as Sub Editor/Reporter in 1999. Joined Prajavani in 2007 and worked as Sub Editor/Reporter at Hubballi, District Correspondent at Vijayapura, Chief Reporter Kalaburagi. Now he is heading the Kalaburagi Bureau. It covers districts of Kalaburagi, Bidar, Yadagiri, Raichur, Koppal. He has 20 years of experience in the field of journalism. He has a Masters degree in MCJ.
Rahul Belagali
Bureau Chief, Hubli
rahul.belagali@prajavani.co.in
Rahul Belagali started his career working in English and Kannada dailies. He joined Prajavani in 2006 and worked as Reporter in Bangalore, District Correspondent in Chikkaballapur and at present, heading Kalaburagi bureau as Chief. He has been covering various issues including poverty, water, crime, rural and urban lifestyle etc. Some stories have made an impact and proved helpful to the needy. He loves watching and writing about movies, listening to songs, reading books and communicating with people from various sections of the society. He completed his Master’s degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Karnataka University, Dharwad in 2004. He also holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Diploma in Journalism from Karnataka State Open University, Mysore. He even has Bhasha Bhushan Praveen certificate in Hindi language.
K.Narasimha Murthy
Bureau Chief, Mysore
knmurthy@prajavani.co.in
A student of Comparative literature and translation started his career as Kannada lecturer in his hometown Doddaballapura, Bangalore rural district, joined Prajavani in 2001, A post graduate in Kannada with 1st rank and 8 gold medals (Bangalore university), Mass communication and journalism (Karnataka state open university), worked as sub editor/reporter in Mysore, senior correspondent in Kolar and Chief correspondent in Ballari. Had won 'Best reporter award' twice by Mysore journalist association (2005, 2008), Abhimani award by Karnataka media collaboration in 2011, and 'best crime report award' by Karnataka working journalists association in 2013. Attended workshops on disaster reporting and long form journalism. Many long form and translated articles published in Prajavani online and print editions.
Udaya U
Bureau Chief, Mangalore
udayu@prajavani.co.in
Having completed his Masters degree in Kannada from Calicut University, Udaya started his career with Vijaya Karnataka as sub editor in 1999. He joined Prajavani in 2004. He has had multiple roles as Sub Editor/Reporter in Hubballi, Staff correspondent in Hassan, senior sub editor in Bengaluru.
Praveen Kulkarni
Head - Bhanuvarada Puravani Section
praveenkulkarni@prajavani.co.in
Praveen is in charge of KARNATAKA DARSHANA and KAMANABILLU supplements. He has over 18 years of experience in the field of journalism. His articles are focused on development activities & civic related issues. He also covers interesting human-stories (Did series of stories, when North Karnataka witnessed floods in 2009). He has also covered Test and ODI cricket matches held across India.
Raghunatha H.C
Assistant Editor, Sudha
chraghunath@prajavani.co.in
Raghunatha was born at Haralapura of Madhugiri Taluk, Tumkur District on November 1, 1974. He studied Kannada M.A. and M.A. in Journalism. He also passed out from Asian College of Journalism completing a PG diploma. He has over eighteen years of experience in journalism and currently serves as Chief Sub-editor in Prajavani. His areas of interest include film, literature and culture.