Editors' Council

Editors' Council is a national organization of newspaper editors in Bangladesh that campaigns for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. On November 13, 2025 Nurul Kabir of New Age and Dewan Hanif Mahmud, editor of Bonik Barta are the president and general secretary of the council for a two-year term.

History

Editors' Council was established in 2013. The founding members were AMM Bahauddin, Alamgir Mohiuddin, Anwar Hossain Manju, A. H. M. Moazzem Hossain, Imdadul Haq Milon, Khondoker Muniruzzaman, Mahbubul Alam, Mostafa Kamal Majumder, MA Malek, Mozammel Haque, Matiur Rahman, Naem Nizam, Shyamal Dutta, and Taslim Uddin Chowdhury. Golam Sarwar was elected the first president, Mahfuz Anam was elected general secretary, and Matiur Rahman Chowdhury the treasurer.
The council has campaigned against section 32 of the Digital Security Act, which they described as an attack on freedom of speech. The council also protested the filing of case under the Digital Security Act against Manab Zamin and its Editor-in-Chief Matiur Rahman Chowdhury by Saifuzzaman Shikhor, Member of Parliament from Magura-1.
Mahfuz Anam of The Daily Star and Naem Nizam of Bangladesh Pratidin were elected the president and general secretary of the council in September 2019. But Naem Nizam had resigned from his post in protest against what he termed the council chief Mahfuz Anam's "unethical" activities. Then Dewan Hanif Mahmud, editor of Bonik Barta and deputy general secretary of the organisation, becomes acting general secretary of the council.
In March 2022, Anam and Mahmud was again appointed as the president and the general secretary of Editors' Council.