News Corp Australia’s Damian Eales and Changhee Park of South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo have been elected to the board of INMA, with D.D. Purkayastha to head the group’s South Asia division.

Purkayastha (on our home page) – managing director and chief executive of ABP in Calcutta, India – succeeds Jagran Prakashan editor and chief executive Sanjay Gupta as president of the regional board on September 1, with Gupta then joining the international board.

News Corp Australia group marketing director Eales (pictured ) and Park (chief financial officer of JoongAng Ilbo) were among 12 INMA members elected to board terms.

The others are

Chris Blaser (Advance Central Services, USA), Eduardo Garces Lopez (El Espectador, Colombia), Pit Gottschalk (Axel Springer, Germany), Kirk MacDonald (Digital First Media, USA), Sandy MacLeod (The Toronto Star, Canada), Jim Moroney (A.H. Belo Corp, USA), Grzegorz Piechota (Agora, Poland) and Fergus Sampson (Media24, South Africa).

The other new division presidents are Harold Grönke of Verlag Dierichs in Kassel, Germany (Europe), and John Newby of The Times in Ottawa, Illinois, USA (North America).