The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of an Indian journalist in Mumbai on 11 June. Jyotirmoy Dey was killed on the spot after being shot at several times by four men in a carefully planned operation in broad daylight, IPI’s India National Committee reported. Dey was the special investigations editor at the […]

Journalist associations in Goa, India, claim that the police were bystanders to an assault on media personnel on Wednesday, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) reported. According to the report, two photojournalists were assaulted while trying to take pictures of violence in which two youths were fatally burned. The Photo Journalists Association of Goa (PJAG) condemned […]

The world’s largest democracy is considering a review of its defamation laws to ensure that journalists do not face criminal proceedings as a result of their work. “We are considering a proposal to decriminalise defamation to the extent it applies to journalists. The endeavour is to save them from malicious prosecution since there is no […]

Autumn 2010 has been a season of political storms in India, and the media finds itself in the midst of a controversy, with its role and ethics under public scrutiny. In the centre of it all is a massive corruption scandal over the allocation of radio frequency spectrum to mobile telephone operators at 2001 prices […]