The News Broadcasters Federation (NBF), has elected editor-in-chief of Republic TV Arnab Goswami as the President of its governing board.

The body of 78 news channels in 14 languages, representing broadcasters from 25 states, met to finalise modalities of a self-regulatory organization.

The members also elected four vice-presidents, namely Jagi Mangat Panda, co-founder of Ortel Communications; Shankar Bala of Fourth Dimension Media; Sanjive Narain, Chairman and Managing Director of Prag News, and Kartikeya Sharma of ITV Network, who will be part of the governing board.