Managing Director and Chief Editor’s Profile

The interim government appointed eminent journalist, poet and litterateur Mahbub Morshed as Managing Director and Chief Editor at the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) on August 17, 2024. 

In line with the government order, the career journalist assumed the office of the BSS on August 18, 2024.

Prior to his appointment as the head of the state-run national news agency, he served different capacities of the mainstream leading newspapers in Bangladesh. He served one of the leading newspapers in the country the Daily Desh Rupantor as Deputy Editor that bestowed upon him the profound opportunity to organise a national daily newspaper as a management level team player.

Mahbub Morshed worked for poriborton.com as Executive Editor. He also served The Daily Kaler Kantho as Online In-Charge and The Daily Samakal as Assistant Editor.
He, as well, served The Daily Prothom Alo as Senior Sub-editor, The Daily Jaijaidin as Senior Sub-editor and The Daily Samakal as Sub-editor.

The BSS chief editor made his debut in journalism with the Daily Ajker Kagoj as Sub-editor on June 21, 2003.  

Mahbub Morshed obtained his Master of Arts from the Department of Archaeology of Jahangirnagar University.

He has 11 publications including five novels, two collections of poems, three collections of short stories and a memoir.

He was awarded the Kagoj nobin Kotha Sahitya puroskar 2005 (Kagoj award for young fiction writers) for the manuscript of a collection of short stories named `Baktigoto Bosontodin’ (Personal Spring days).

Mahbub Morshed was born to Md. Showkot Ali and Morsheda Begum in Rangpur district.