JFA mourns demise of media corona-warrior in Odisha
Guwahati Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has expressed profound grief over the demise of a media corona-warrior from Orissa, who breathed his last on 11 July 2020 at KIMS Covid hospital…
Covid-19: 28 employees of ZEE NEWS tested positive; studios sealed
WEB DESK 28 employees of Zee News have tested positive for the coronavirus, Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Chaudhary said on Tuesday. Most of them are asymptomatic, he said, tweeting an official statement…
SC refuses to quash FIRs against Arnab Goswami, no transfer of inquiry to CBI
WEB DESK The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to quash the first information reports filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami for his comments against Congress President Sonia Gandhi in…
Curbing fake news does not impinge on press freedom: Javadekar
AMN / NEW DELHI Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar today stated that curbing fake news did not impinge on press freedom. In an article, Mr Javadekar said, rumours are…
Three Indian photographers win Pulitzer Prize
WEB DESK Three photographers from Jammu & Kashmir won prestigious Pulitzer for coverage after erstwhile state lost special status. Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand won the 2020 Pulitzer…
World Press Freedom Day being celebrated across globe
AMN World Press Freedom Day is being celebrated across the globe today. As the entire world is going through COVID-19 pandemic, this year the theme of the day is “Journalism…
India’s Siddharth Varadarajan among DW Freedom of Speech Award winners
AMN / WEB DESK The Wire founding Editor Siddharth Varadarajan is among 17 journalists from across the world selected for the Germany based prestigious Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award.…
MUSLIMS ASKED TO BOYCOTT ‘LAP MEDIA’
WEB DESK Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Chairman, Delhi Minorities Commission asked Muslim community leaders not to accept invitations of news channels which are spewing venom against the community. He said in…
Media and Muslims: Will not gag press, implead PCI as party to case, SC tells Jamiat
AMN / New Delhi The Supreme Court on Monday declined to pass any interim order on the plea of a Muslim body seeking to restrain a section of media from…
Hate Muslim Media Factory- Case Study of Hindi daily ‘Dainik Jagran’
By Syed Ali Mujtaba India’s Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, once the world’s largest read daily, with close links to the right wing Hindu outfits called “Sangh Parivar” is hate Muslim…