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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

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.