The Editors Guild of India has elected journalist Sanjay Kapoor as its new president, with Raghavan Srinivasan as general secretary and Teresa Rehman as treasurer for the year. All three were elected unopposed after no alternate nominations were filed, giving the incoming team a clear mandate at a time when the media industry is grappling with political pressures, technological disruption, and declining job security. Kapoor said the role offers “an opportunity to continue serving a profession I have been connected with for many years,” and described joining the Guild’s leadership as “not merely a symbolic responsibility but a renewed call to engage more deeply with the challenges confronting journalists today.” He added that the Guild remains “a vital space where concerns can be articulated collectively and addressed with clarity.” Reflecting on the changing media landscape, Kapoor said journalism today faces pressure from several d

News Corp Australia has launched a licence agreement to give corporate Australia new confidence to download, share and copy content from across the publisher’s professional and extensive news, information and entertainment network, helping reduce the significant legal and financial risk copyright infringement poses.  The new product, the Corporate Copyright Licence, is a straightforward licence available for companies to cover staff downloading and sharing of News Corp Australia content as well as the right to post copyrighted material externally to digital platforms, including web and social and client emails.   Importantly, given the rise of Artificial Intelligence, the licence also caters for copyrighted content to be used as a prompt in AI tools as well as delivering predictable value and ease-of-compliance. News Corp Australia’s Managing Director, Tech Platform Partnerships Nicholas Gray said many businesses do not comprehend the importance of having the right safeguar

Morning and welcome to Thursday. The Murdoch papers go big this morning on the latest inflation figures - they're up, surprise, surprise - and The Australian leads the way ('The Christmas grimace: CPI, rates tracking north') and focuses on Treasurer Jim Chalmers with a strip of what you might well call grimaces and a nicely designed story complete with The Oz's super graphic style too, that split into two columns - 'The Boast', and 'The Reality', with our man Chalmers looking downcast in the middle. The main front page story there by economics correspondent Matthew Cranston, with Geoff Chambers inside who reckons the 'inflation dragon' "threatens to torch Labor's economic agenda". We'll see, but certainly the cost of living crisis marches on and with the possiblity of interest rate rises, not falls, in the new year, few will be happy, and that includes Mr Chalmers.  The Australian Financial Review ba

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Tuesday, 25 November, urged the state’s journalists to remain an alert and impartial “Third Eye”, stating that his government welcomed fair criticism. He spoke at the National Press Day programme in Gangtok, which was postponed by nine days at his request so he could meet the journalists personally. Expressing his gratitude, Tamang said he valued the media’s constant presence and its role in shaping public understanding. He added that journalists are vital in countering misinformation and highlighting issues affecting the youth, urging them to challenge false narratives, drug abuse, and other social concerns. Tamang said his participation reflected the government’s respect for the press and acknowledged that the administration still had areas to improve. “We are committed to transparency and accountability,” he said. He noted that while journalism in Sikkim operates with greater freedom and mutual respect, challenges such as fa

A woman journalist was subjected to online harassment after a man allegedly created multiple fake social media profiles in her name and posted defamatory and fabricated content. The Delhi Police on Tuesday, November, arrested a 40-year-old suspect in the case. The accused, identified as Chet Kamal Prakash, a native of Jammu and Kashmir currently residing in Mumbai, had allegedly forged the anchor’s identity across several platforms, causing her serious reputational harm. In her complaint, the journalist stated that the fake accounts were uploading derogatory material and misusing her name and photographs. According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (Outer North) Hareshwar Swami, the harassment escalated when the journalist received a threatening phone call warning that her wedding, scheduled in the coming weeks, would be disrupted. The police registered a case under Section 66C of the Information Technology Act, which deals with identity theft. Using technical surveillance, inves

Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang on Tuesday, November 25, urged the state’s journalists to remain an alert and impartial “Third Eye”, saying his government welcomed fair criticism. He spoke at the National Press Day programme in Gangtok, which was postponed by nine days at his request so he could meet the journalists personally. Expressing his gratitude, Tamang said he valued the media’s constant presence and the role it plays in shaping public understanding. He added that journalists are vital in countering misinformation and highlighting issues affecting the youth, urging them to challenge false narratives, drug abuse and other social concerns. Tamang said his participation reflected the government’s respect for the press and acknowledged that the administration still had areas to improve. “We are committed to transparency and accountability,” he said. He noted that while journalism in Sikkim functions with greater freedom and mutual respect, challenges such

Picture Credit: The Hindu The Amaravati Journalist Housing Society has renewed its appeal for the swift implementation of the long-delayed journalist housing project in Amaravati, meeting Housing, Information and Public Relations Minister Kolusu Parthasarathy on Tuesday, November 25, at the Secretariat. Society representatives reminded the Minister that 30 acres in Mandadam and Thulluru had been allotted to them in 2019 for the construction of a multi-storied residential complex for journalists. At the time, the society had requested that the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) be appointed as the project developer, following which the allotted land was returned to the government. The State government later issued G.O. No. 107, specifying that the project would be built on the lines of Happy Nest, a flagship housing project in Amaravati. During the meeting, the society urged the Minister to ensure that this Government Order is implemented without delay. Mr Parthasarathy r