The ministry has already sent rebuttals to leading foreign media organisations, including The Guardian, Washington Post, Time, Al Jazeera, The Economist, Huffington Post, New York Times and the BBC.
In April 2019, India was ranked 140 out of 180 countries in the press freedom index released by Reporters without Borders. Increasingly, scribes are feeling the heat from overzealous administrations
While senior journalists Seema Mustafa and MD Nalapat are vying for the post of President, Sanjay Kapoor is pitted against Smita Prakash of ANI for the post of general secretary.
FIR had been lodged on Oct 1 at Jaipur’s Police station against Lokendra Singh who is the media manager of former Dy CM Sachin Pilot and Sharat Kumar, a Rajasthan-based senior journalist working with Aaj Tak news channel.
The Supreme Court, while hearing a plea which has raised grievance over the programme, said that the manner in which some media houses are conducting debate is a matter of concern as all kind of defamatory things are said.
Prashant Kanojia was also arrested in 2019 when he wrote social media posts about Yogi Adityanath and was charged for maligning the image of the Chief Minister.
Masrat Zahra was named the winner of the 2020 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. The jury praised the 26-year-old’s work for its sense of 'dread and community.'
The policy gives power to the Department of Information & Public Relations to examine the content of print, electronic and other media for 'fake news, plagiarism and unethical or anti-national activities.'
