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Forum of media educators emphasize on promoting media literacy & ethical journalism

-Press release by organizers of All India Media Educators Conference-2018, dated 12th July, 2018 Jaipur: About 200 media educators, researchers and practitioners from all over India, during 3RD All India Media Educators' Conference in Jaipur releases a declaration upholding new values and needs to upgrade standards and inculcate positive values among media practitioners. Mr Kalyan Singh Kothari, Conference Secretary, while disclosing the “AIMEC-2018 Declaration” here today said that more than 200 media...

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FMP condemns hate speech against journalists

-Press Note by Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP), dated 28 May, 2018 Mr Narendra Modi is perhaps the first Prime Minister of India to have not held a single press conference, four years at a stretch. This could not however have been unrelated to a series of events that raise fresh concerns about media freedom. The concerted online hate campaign against journalist Ms Rana Ayyub, and the circulation of a fake pornographic...

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Govt to hire social media monitors for all 716 districts -Swati Mathur

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After its plan to penalise journalists identified as purveyors of fake news was nixed by the PMO, the I&B ministry has now decided to set up a social media communication hub and deploy executives to monitor online content across each of India’s 716 districts. The monitoring mechanism, once in place, will be able to read, contextualise and respond to content in most Indian and foreign languages...

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In Response to Media Coverage of Crimes Against Minorities, A BJP-Affiliated Think Tank Proposed Guidelines Curtailing Editorial Independence -Kaushal Shroff

-CaravanMagazine.in Crimes against minorities in India, specifically Dalits and Muslims, have risen dramatically since the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. A reasonable reaction to such hate crimes would have included increasing the allocation of funds to policing machinery at the local and state level. Instead, the Public Policy Research Centre, a BJP-affiliated think tank, had proposed that the state respond by shooting the...

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After Aborted "Fake News" Order, Centre Turns Focus To Online Media

-NDTV The Information and Broadcasting Ministry headed by Smriti Irani has set up a committee that will discuss and recommend a regulatory framework for online media. New Delhi: The government has amped up a move to regulate online media and news portals just after it was forced to take back a controversial order on punishing journalists for fake news on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's intervention. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry headed by...

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