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How Gujarat Samachar fell out of Modi’s favour

Facing backlash amid the 2002 Gujarat riots, then Chief Minister Narendra Modi wrote a letter to a prominent Gujarati newspaper, reportedly appreciating its coverage of the incident. The same coverage had been termed as a “clear violation of all accepted norms of media ethics” by an Editors Guild of India…

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‘To cover protests is no crime’: Editors Guild condemns Kerala police’s FIR against journalist

The Editors Guild of India said yesterday it was “deeply disturbed” by the registration of an FIR against a Kerala journalist for reporting on a students’ protest.

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‘Shocked’ by Manipur CM’s remarks: Editors Guild urges govt to drop fact-finding report FIR

The Editors Guild of India has said that it is “disturbed” by the FIR over its fact-finding report and shocked by Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh’s “intimidatory” remarks.

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Press freedom concerns as India editors’ body charged over Manipur report

Manipur police file cases against Editors Guild of India members, accusing them of promoting enmity between groups.

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Karnataka government preparing framework for fact-check body: Minister Priyank Kharge

Editors Guild of India (EGI) has expressed concerns over the proposed fact-check unit of the Karnataka government.

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‘Obliterates freedom to publish, right to access’: Editors Guild files plea against IT rules amendments

After the Editors Guild of India and the Association of Indian Magazines filed petitions against the April amendment to the IT Rules, the Bombay High Court tagged both petitions to a plea in the same matter filed by comedian Kunal Kamra.

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‘Makes it easier to muzzle the free press’: Editors Guild on proposed change to IT Rules

The Editors Guild of India has expressed concern over a proposed amendment which will ensure that all intermediaries, including social media platforms, do not allow any content identified as “false” by the Press Information Bureau’s Fact Check Unit.

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Wire-Meta saga: Editors Guild withdraws Tek Fog remarks, Economist points to 3 lessons from ‘own-goal’

Hours after the Wire issued an apology to its readers over its controversial Meta stories, the Economist carried a piece on the website’s “own-goal” holding lessons for “opposition voices everywhere” while the Editors Guild of India withdrew its statement referring to the organisation’s Tek Fog reports.

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Pause, take a critical look at what you have done: Editors Guild of India to news channels on Kanpur violence

“The media is in place to strengthen the Constitution and the law, and not break it through sheer irresponsibility and absence of accountability, the EGI said.

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Supreme Court to hear 2 petitions against sedition law on April 27

CJI has questioned presence of colonial law post-Independence

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‘Many editors, reporters appear to be rushing to conclusions’: EGI on communal violence coverage

In a statement issued today, the Editors Guild of India urged editors and journalists to exercise utmost restraint in reporting “communal disturbances that have erupted in various parts of the country”.

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Editors Guild urges MHA to act after journalists stripped in MP, chained in Odisha

The Editors Guild of India has expressed shock over the manner in which police arrested, stripped, and humiliated a local journalist in Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh, and chained another journalist in Balasore, Odisha.

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Editors Guild seeks release of Agra journalist, probe into ‘police torture’

In a statement released today, the Editors Guild of India demanded that Agra-based journalist Gaurav Bansal be “treated fairly” by the state administration and released immediately.

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‘Don't use law as tools of intimidation’: Editors Guild demands release of Uttarakhand journalist

The Editors Guild of India on Thursday demanded the immediate release of local journalist Kishore Ram following his arrest by Uttarakhand police. In a statement, the group said it was “deeply disturbed” by the arrest and also urged the state administration not to use laws as “tools of intimidation” against…

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Editors Guild urges SC-appointed committee to take cognisance of NYT report on Pegasus

After the New York Times reported on the Indian government buying the Pegasus spyware as part of a larger arms deal in 2017, the Editors Guild of India urged a Supreme Court-appointed committee to take cognisance of the report's claims.

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