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Treading Carefully: Illusion of Accountability in an age of social media content creation
In over a decade of non-transparency and unaccountability from traditional media, citizens need to guard against treating all social media content creators as journalists
Press Club of India condemns FIR against Editor’s Guild of India (EGI), criminalising journalism
The Press Club of India has strongly condemned the actions of the Manipur police in lodging of filing a police case against three members of a fact finding committee of the Editors Guild of India (EGI) and its President on the media coverage of the ethnic clashes and violence in Manipur.
Blocking of Kashmir Walla condemned: NWMI
The Network of Women in Media (NWMI) has condemned the latent censorship in the act of blocking the Kashmir Walla
DUJ Protests freezing of media accounts
The Delhi Union of Journalists has registered its strong protest at the repeated moves to muffle media voices in several parts of the country.
One more case of centralisation & executive overreach: Press & Registration of Periodicals Bill, 2023
From powers of search and seizure, a plethora of provisions threatens media freedoms
RSS weekly Organiser ordered to take down article claiming principal of Christian school is exploiting nuns, students: Delhi HC
The Court observed that the reports were published in a reckless manner without any factual verification and were tarnishing the image and reputation of the school principal.
CJP escalates complaint against Times Now Navbharat show on Gyanvapi Mosque to NBDSA
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The show made contentious, one-sided and misinformed statements regarding the Supreme Court and the ASI Survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque
Woman seen heckling old Muslim man not “reporter” but part of right-wing ecosystem of hate
Controversial rise of YouTube channel ‘The Rajdharma’ has raised concerns about the mislabelling of content on the internet as journalism, boding ill for a serious dilution of both journalism and ethics.
Attack on freedom of speech: CPI(M) leader receives call from police over meme on Savarkar
When Sadique Basha questioned them on the law under which police took notice of the social media meme, the police backed down
Supreme Court finds self-regulation of TV to be “ineffective”, will frame stringent laws
CJI Chandrachud: “Unless you make the rules stringent no TV channel has no compulsion to comply. For any violation if there is a lakh penalty then what stops them?"
NAJ, DUJ blasts Union Govt Bill(s) on Media
Stress Necessity of Tripartite Autonomous Media Commission to Save Journalism
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