M Shanmugavel

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M. Shanmugavel, popularly known as MS, is a Tamil journalist and is the editor of Makkal Kural and Trinity Mirror.

1 Early life
2 Journalist
3 Editor
4 Publisher
5 Awards
6 External links

[edit] Early life

He was born on July 4, 1927 to S. Muthu Kumar and Meenakshi Ammal and had early education in Aruppukottai. He was forced to discontinue his education in FA, at Madura College due to financial distress.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Journalist

He started his journalistic career in 1946 at the Daily Thanthi in Coimbatore. Later, in the mid-fifties, he teamed up with a band of dedicated journalists and started the first ever cooperative venture, Navamani, a Tamil eveninger which became very popular.^{[citation needed]} The paper also had the distinction of twice winning the Central government's best display award. After a few year, he quit the Navamani and started Alai Osai. Here too political influence restricted his independence which forced him to start his own venture.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Editor

In 1973, he started his own venture, Makkal Kural as a limited company. He was invited by Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Narashima Rao to accompany them during their foreign tours on various occasions. He also had the privilege of attending the UN conference and the Davos economic summit.

[edit] Publisher

In 1995 he started an English eveninger, Trinity Mirror to cater to the needs of industrial circle. Makkal Kural was the first to install high speed web offset machine, later was the first ever in South India to go for computerised DTP in the late 80's.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Awards

MS has won the Central governments Awards for the best layout and news presentations for 5 times, twice for Tamil and thrice for the English paper. He was a former member of Temples committee under HR and CE department headed by then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha and was also a former member of the high level committee for prohibition enforcement constituted by Government of Tamil Nadu.