The Latest Breaking News from the Editors Guild of India

The Editors Guild of India (EGI) strongly condemned the sudden removal of senior journalist Ruben Banerjee’s YouTube channel, Mu Ruben Kahuchhi (I am Ruben speaking), stating that it raises “serious questions of freedom of expression, platform power, and the lack of clarity in digital governance”.

To discuss how the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act will impact journalism, five press associations organised an open meeting at the Press Club of India’s premises in New Delhi on Monday.

In the pleas challenging the IT Rules amendment, the centre defended its fact-check unit and told the Bombay High Court that not preventing fake or false news would violate the fundamental rights conferred by Article 19(1)(a) of the constitution, Livelaw reported.

The Editors Guild of India termed as “worrisome” the arrest of an on-duty television journalist by the West Bengal Police

The Editors Guild of India (EGI) has said the draft Broadcast Services (Regulation) Bill circulated by the government is “vague and excessively intrusive”

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.

For governments to deem themselves or units constituted by them as the adjudicator of what is false is a retrograde move as an interested party deciding upon what is factual or not is problematic

Anant Nath, editor of ‘The Caravan’, was on Saturday elected the president of the Editors Guild of India.

The Supreme Court again extended its interim protection to four members of the Editors Guild of India in the FIRs lodged over their fact-finding report, and said the “entire complaint is the government’s counter-narrative”, Livelaw reported.