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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Editors’ Guild: These amendments will have deeply adverse implications for press freedom in the country. DUJ: The PIB will act as the new censor, which is a very dangerous situation reminiscent of the Emergency.
The BJP-led government continues to aim for narrative control of the media. Since print and television news have already been coopted and no longer pose a problem, the effort now is focused on controlling the feisty digital media through various formal and informal instruments.
The criminalisation of journalism and human rights activities in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as other parts of India, must stop. Freedom of expression and the right to know are fundamental rights. A free press is essential for giving people a voice and making information available to them.
While Javed Akhtar’s remarks at the event are significant, much more significant is the progressive environment the fair provides.
The former NDTV anchor says that Adani’s takeover of NDTV is not a normal takeover, but was aimed at silencing him, for which Adani spent thousands of crores. Ravish says that he will continue to speak – speak out – through his channel on YouTube.
This sweeping assertion comes in the same week that journalist Ravish Kumar left NDTV.
Two Press Statements, condemning the raids on the residences and office of senior editors of the news portal, The Wire, in New Delhi and Mumbai on 31st October and 1st November, 2022 and manhandling of the lawyer, Shadan Farasat and other staff members of The Wire.
Concerned citizens have come together to release a statement in solidarity with nonprofits in India that have recently been raided by the Income Tax Department.
“For three of my four decades as a journalist, I argued that the Indian media are politically free but imprisoned by profit. Today I’d say they are still shackled by profit, but are increasingly politically imprisoned as well.”
Public intellectuals should be respected because they speak out against injustice wherever it occurs.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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