1. 'Chief Editor' means a person who is in overall charge of a News Agency.

2. 'Deputy Chief Editor' means a person who assists the Chief Editor in the discharge of his duties and acts for him during his absence.

3. 'Editor" means a person who directs and supervises the editorial side of the news agency

4. 'Chief of Divisional Bureau' a person who is in charge of the central news desk of the entire news agency and who supervises, guides and directs news services in metropolitan centres, ie; Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras.

5. 'Chief News Editor' means a person who assists the Deputy Chief Editor in the discharge of his duties and coordinates news activities.

6. 'Feature Editor' means a person who deals with features and is in charge of bringing out the Feature Service of the news agency.

7. 'Economic Editor' means a person who is in charge of bringing out the economic services of the news agency.

8. 'Science Editor' means a person who deals with specialised news relating to science and technology, and is in charge of bringing out the science service of the news agency.

9. 'Commercial Editor' means a person who deals with news and views bearing on commerce, finance, trade and industry and comments on them and allocates and supervises the work of one or more reporters.

10. 'Photo Editor' means a person in charge of operating the photo service of the news agency and coordination of the service.

11 'Special Correspondent' means a person who is accredited to the Union Government and whose regular duties are to report news of Parliamentary, Political or general importance or a person in a metropolitan centre who specialises in covering news of economic importance or national or international nature.

12. 'Principal Correspondent' means a correspondent in State capitals accredited to the State Governments.

13. 'Foreign Correspondent' means a person stationed abroad for news coverage from the country or part of the country to which he is assigned.

14. 'News Editor' means a person who is incharge of a news desk or regional news at a metropolitan centre and who supervises, directs and guides the different news services.

15. 'Chief Reporter' means a person in metropolitan centre who is in charge of all reporters at that centre, and reports all news legislative, political and general importance.

16. "Chief News Photographer" means a person who allocates and supervises the work of photographers.

17. 'Chief of State Bureau' means a person who guides and directs collection of news of all types in a State Capital.

18. 'Chief Sub-Editor' means a person in the metropolitan centre who regularly takes charge of a shift on the editorial desk, assigns and supervises the work sub-editors.

19. 'Senior Correspondent" means a person in the metropolitan centre whose regular duties are to report news of Parliamentary, political or general importance or a person regularly assigned to cover news of economic ad commercial importance, courts and national sports.

20. 'Senior Sub-editor' means a person in the metropolitan centre who is regularly assigned to take charge of a shift other than the main shifts on the editorial desk or whose regular duties includes preparation of news despatches for special subscribers.

21 "Senior Reporter' means a person whose regular duties include reporting of State Government news or proceedings of State legislature.

22. 'Senior Photographer' means a person who covers major assignments of public interest and who is a person with some experience and acts in the absence of chief photographer.

23. "Sub-Editor" means a person who receives, selects, shortens, summarises, elaborates, translates, edits and headlines news items of all descriptions and may do some or all of these functions.

24. 'Corespondent' means a person who gathers and despatches by wire, post or any other means, news from any centre.

25. 'Reporter" means a person who gathers and presents news at a particular centre.

26. 'Photographer" means a person who covers news events of public interest through photographs.

27. ' T. V. Reporter' means a person who gathers and presents news for television wing at a particular centre.

28. 'Chief Reporter (T. V.) means a person in overall charge of the TV service of PTI.

29. 'Regional Manager' means a person who is in charge of news and other services of the news agency in the wester/northern/eastern/southern regions of the country.

30. 'Special Correspondent' on selective basis means a special correspondent who is placed in a higher class on account of discharge of duties of higher work-load and responsibility.

31. 'Manager of Stock Exchange Services' means a person who coordinates the Stock exchange information and stock scan service reports.

32. 'Producer TV' means a person in charge of respective areas of programming (economy, current affairs, education, news).

33. 'Special Correspondent (TV)' means a person in charge of reporting a for news and current affairs and also presentation as far as possible.

34. 'Manager under the State Bureau Capital' means a person who guides and directs collection of news of all types in a State capital.

35. 'Assistant Producer-cum-Reporter' means a person who assists in production as well as helps in reporting events for the T. V. service, including research and reporting.

36. 'Manager of Exchange' means a person who coordinates the news agencies exchange programme with other agencies.

37. 'Librarian" or "Index Assistant' means a person who prepares and maintains records relating to news and views which are used as background or fill out for  stories.

Note - (1) These job definitions are subject to the Boards' decision to be taken after considering the reports of sub-committees constituted by the Board on 29/07/99

(2) Any newspaper employee in news agency employed with any designation different from those enumerated in the schedules, but doing the same or similar job, or same or similar nature of job, of any group in the schedule, shall be deemed to be a working journalist in that group.