List of journalists died due to COVID-19

Template:Dynamic list Template:COVID-19 pandemic sidebar This is a list of journalists reported as having died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as a result of infection by the virus Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

List

Sr No	State	Name	Media organisation
1	Andhra Pradesh	Srinivasa Rao	Prajashakti Daily
2		Surya Prakash	Vikas Parvada
3		M Parthasarathy	CVR News Channel
4		Narayanam Seshacharyulu	Eenadu
5		Chandrashekar Naidu	NTV
6		P Tataiah
7	Assam	Golap Saikia	All India Radio
8		Jadu Chutia	Moranhat Press club president
9		Dhaneshwar Rabha	Rural Reporter
10		Ashim Dutta
11	Bihar	Krishna Mohan Sharma	Times of India
12		Ram Prakash Gupta	Danik Jagran
13		Arun Kumar Verma	Prasar Bharti
14	Chandigarh	Davinder Pal Singh	PTC News
15	Chhattisgarh	Pradeep Arya	Journalist and Cartoonist
16	Delhi	Kapil Datta	Hindustan Times
17		Yogesh Kumar	Doordarshan
18		Radhakrishna Muralidhar	The Wire
19		Ashish Yechury	News Laundry
20		Chanchal Pal Chauhan	Times of India
21		Manglesh Dabral	Freelance
22		Rajiv Katara	Kadambini Magazine
23		Kakoli Bhattacharya
24	Haryana	Rakesh Taneja
25	Himachal Pradesh	Ravinder Kumar	Dainik Jagran
26	Jammu and Kashmir	Muhammad Shafi Naqsbandi	Jehadi Akbar
27	Karnataka	Pavan Hettur	Prajavani
28		Somashekhar Yadavatti	Samayukta Karnataka
29	Kerala	D Vijayamohan	Malayala Manorama
30	Madhya Pradesh	Kamal Dixit	Freelance
31		Manoj Binwal	Prajatantra
32		Harish Choubey	Dainik Bhaskar
33	Maharashtra	Fatima R Zakaria	Freelance
34		Pandurang Raikar	TV9
35		Kailassinh Pardeshi	Saamana
36		Jairam Sawant	Dainik Sagar
37		Haresh Munwani	Sports journalist
38		Javed Jivani	Former Arab News staffer
39		Ashok Churi	Palghar Times
40		Roshan Dias	TV9
41		Rahul Dolare
42		Vivek Bendre	The Hindu
43		Sadanand Shinde	Navakal
44		Sukhnandan Gavai
45		Jairam Sawant
46	Odisha	Jatish Khamari	Sambad
47		Amjad Badshah	Digital Platform
48		Govinda Behera	News 6
49		Manoj Sahoo	Nitidin
50		Karunakar Sahu	Anupam Bharat
51		Prabir Pradhan	News18 Odia news channel
52		K CH Ratnam	Eenadu
53		Priyadarshi Patnaik	The Samaja
54		Prabir Kumar Pradhan	News18 (Odia)
55	Puducherry	K Dharmaraj	Polymer TV
56	Punjab	Ashwani Kapoor	Punjab Kesari
57		Naresh Bajaj	Sach Kahoon
58	Tamil Nadu	E Velmurugan	Cameraman/Raj TV
59		V Shrikanth	PTI
60		Ramanathan	Reporter Private News Channel
61		Florent C Pereira	Journalist-actor
62	Telangana	Chintha Nagaraju	Eenadu
63		K Amaranath	News of Indian Journalists Union
64		P Ramesh	Freelance
65		Bura Ramesh	Freelance
66		Jayaprakash	Freelance
67		Srinivas	Andhra Jyoti
68		Sainath	99tv
69		Madiraju Giri	ABN Andhra Jyothi
70		Ramzan Ali	Eenadu
71		Syed Shabaz	TTV
72		Sridhar Dharmasanam	Maa Hyderabad
73		Sammi Reddy	Vaartha
74		Kondra Srinivas Goud	Hindi Milap
75		Ramachandra Rao	Sakshi
76		Kalpana	Bathukamma TV
77		D Manoj	TV5 news
78		D Ashok	Andhra Bhoomi
79	Tripura	Jitendra Debbarma	Chini Khorang
80		Tanmoy Chakraborty	Local Digital News Channel
81	Uttar Pradesh	Tavishi Srivastva	The Pioneer
82		Neelanshu Shukla	India Today
83		Vinay Srivastava	Freelance
84		Pankaj Kulshreshtha
85		Pankaj Shukla	Rajsatta Express
86		Ami Adhar Nidar	Dainik Jagran
87		Himanshu Joshi	UNI
88		Ankit Shukla	Dainik Jagran
89		Pramod Shrivastava
90		Durga Prasad Shukla	Amar Ujala
91		Sachchidananda Gupta “Sacche”	Jadid Amal
92		Brijendra Patel	Hindustan
93		Shivanandan Sahu	Punjab Kesari Digital
94		Prashant Saxena
95		Rohitash Gupta	Freelance
96		Ankit Shukla	Dainik Jagran
97		Raju Mishra
98		Anil Srivastava	Dainik Jagran
99		Saket Suman	Janta TV
100	West Bengal	Ronny Roy	Aajkaal
101		Kishore Bhimani	Cricket journalist

See also

• COVID-19 vaccination in India
• COVID-19 recession in India
• Indian government response to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Indian state government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
• PM CARES Fund

References

1. 52 journalists died in India due to COVID-19 in last 28 days, 101 in last one year, finds study-India News , Firstpost. Firstpost(29 April 2021). Retrieved 2021-04-30.