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TopicPress Council of India

Topic: Press Council of India

Don’t publish election surveys without verification — PCI issues new advisory for newspapers

New guideline part of PCI’s updated Norms of Journalistic Conduct, edition 2020, which was uploaded to media watchdog’s website Friday. Also includes advisory on Covid reporting.

Editors Guild urges PCI to withdraw advisory on foreign content publication by Indian media

In a statement, the guild says such an advisory could bring in some form of censorship and even punitive actions against those organisations, which publish content.

Press Council says Indian media is responsible for verifying foreign content before publishing

Media watchdog says it has considered references received from govt on responsibility of Indian newspapers in publishing foreign content, and thinks unregulated circulation is ‘not desirable’.

TRP is manipulatable, needs to change, say I&B Ministry, Prasar Bharati & PCI to House panel

Amid the ‘fake TRP' row, the three agencies & parliamentary panel on IT were unanimous in their views that TRP isn’t a ‘robust system & has become dated’.

Watchdog PCI slams ‘media trial’ in Sushant Singh Rajput case, says don’t publish gossip

In advisory issued Friday, print media watchdog PCI has urged against giving excessive publicity to victim, witnesses, suspects and accused as it amounts to 'invasion of their privacy rights'. 

Modi govt’s new bill to regulate digital media too, has no punishment clause for paid news

The draft bill that I&B ministry has uploaded online for comments and suggestions has also removed provisions of prosecution for publishers.

Press Council has not gone back on its support for restrictions in Jammu & Kashmir

Press Council secretary says controversial application in SC that supported the media restrictions and communications blackout in J&K ‘stands as it is’.

Editors Guild wants Press Council chairman to overturn his move to back media ban in J&K

Guild says it’s “gravely concerned” that PCI instead of speaking up for press freedom is arguing for media clampdown in name of national interest.

This is not the first time Press Council chief has batted for restrictions on media

PCI chair C.K. Prasad has moved Supreme Court with a plea to intervene in a petition challenging communication curbs in J&K.

Modi-Trump meet doesn’t mean Kashmir debate is over. It’s just beginning

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

On Camera

Period pain is real. Blanket menstrual leave policy isn’t a fix

The Supreme Court is right to point out the 'mindset of employers', who, because of this policy, may deduce that 'women are inferior.'

Red carpet for industry honchos as AAP kicks off Punjab investors summit. Rs 10,000 cr pledged on Day 1

At 2nd such summit in Punjab for top investors organised by AAP since it came to power in Punjab, Lakshmi Mittal announced his Bathinda refinery has increased production of LPG by 3,000 tonnes/day.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.