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Working journalist, an ex-employee would be a 'working journalist'. It is clear that the definitions of a 'newspaper employee' and a 'working journalist' have to be construed in the light of and subject to the context requiring otherwise, Bennett Coleman and Co. (P) Ltd. v. Punya Priya Das Gupta, AIR 1970 SC 426: (1969) 2 SCC 1: (1970) 1 SCR 181. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, s. 2(f)]

Working journalist, means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and who is employed as such in, or in relation to, any newspaper establishment, and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copy tester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news-photographers and proof reader. An editor is expressly included in this definition, Management of Rashtradoot v. Rajasthan Working Journalist Union, (1971) 3 SCC 96. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, s. 2(f)]

It means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and who is employed as such, either whole-time or part-time, in, or in relation to, one or more newspaper establishments, and includes an editor, a leader-writer, news editor, sub-editor, feature-writer, copy-tester, reporter, correspondent, cartoonist, news-photographer and proof-reader, but does not include any such person who-

(i) is employed mainly in a managerial or administrative capacity, or

(ii) being employed in a supervisory capacity per-forms, either by the nature of the duties attached to his office or by reason of the powers vested in him, functions mainly of a managerial nature. [Working Journalists and Other Newspaper Employees (Con-ditions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (45 of 1955), s. 2(f)]