The newly-formed National Press Organization, under Karam Gabr, will discuss at its meeting on Monday selecting board heads of state-owned press institutions.

A source at the organization, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that as for the article on the retirement age in the new law regulating press and media, the organization's members agreed on raising the retirement age to 65 for all staff of press institutions, including journalists, employees and workers. 

Those who are over the age of 60 will not assume the posts of the managing director and editor-in-chief of any state-owned press institution, the source noted.