The Latest Breaking News from Editors Guild of India

‘Only reporters can bring human emotions’: Editors on the role of AI in newsrooms

Speaking at a conference in Delhi on the role of AI in journalism, Editors Guild of India President Sanjay Kapoor remarked that while AI undeniably boosts speed and efficiency, “only reporters can bring human voices and emotions.”

Newslaundry · Apr 17

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…

Newslaundry · May 27, 2025

‘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.

Newslaundry · Dec 30, 2023

‘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.

Newslaundry · Jan 18, 2023

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.

Newslaundry · Oct 28, 2022

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.

The Hindu · Jun 8, 2022

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

CJI has questioned presence of colonial law post-Independence

The Hindu · Apr 26, 2022

‘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”.

Newslaundry · Apr 19, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Apr 8, 2022

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.

Newslaundry · Mar 21, 2022