Oldest scribe fêted

IN Media Watch Briefs | 16/10/2016

Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, editor of the Mizoram newspaper, Zoram Tlangau, has been declared at age 90 to be the oldest working journalist in the country at a function held in Aizawl. The Nagaland Post reports that Pachuau, a war veteran-turned-journalist, wrote his first article on May 16, 1953 in Zoram Thupuan newpaper and later went on to edit and publish his own newspaper in 1970.

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