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…
Lessons from Rwanda; India needs stringent laws to hold media accountable
Syed Ali Mujtaba In Rwanda close to a million Rwandan Tutsi and moderate Hutus were killed in a genocide that lasted the months of April to July of 1994. In…
Media should not be threatened in doing honest job: Press Club of India
WEB DESK The Press Club of India is dismayed by the pleading of the Union government to that practically appears to suggest that only the official version of the situation…
Centre directs all States/UTs to ensure operational continuity of media
AMN / NEW DELHI Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has directed all States and Union Territories to ensure operational continuity of print and electronic media in view of the…
PM urges media representatives to launch stay home campaign
AMN Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the media representatives to launch ‘Stay Home’ campaign so that citizens can understand the gravity of the situation and take the lockdown seriously. Prime…
Govt. lifts ban on two TV channels
STAFF REPORTER Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar has said that the ban on the two TV channels from Kerala has been lifted and the matter will be…