-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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Manoranjan S Roy, RTI activist, interviewed by Ashutosh Sharma (National Herald)
-National Herald He fears for his life and safety of his family, admits the activist from Mumbai, explaining his reluctance to speak to the media and appear on TV. Visiting the national capital for filing his petition before the Supreme Court, Manoranjan S Roy resisted attempts to drag him to TV studios. Life for him had changed ever since his RTI applications revealed discrepancies between the supply and deployment of Electronic...
More »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...
More »Meet the Dalits who are using online platforms to tell stories of their community -Danish Raza
-Hindustan Times Rather than feeling ignored by the mainstream media or disgruntled by the ‘biased’ coverage, Dalits are using digital space to publish news and opinions. On December 31, when violence spread in Pune on the 200th anniversary of the Bhima- Koregaon battle, it was the first time many people in other parts of the country got to know about the encounter between the army of Peshwa Bajirao II, and a...
More »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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