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IJU wants government to set up media commission
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Bring broadcast media into its regulatory framework and enforce a code of ethics
Want enactment of a law to protect working journalists and compensation to the families
Hyderabad: The 7th plenary session of the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) has urged the government to set up a media commission and consult representatives of all stakeholders in the media to frame its terms of reference.
Briefing presspersons here on Monday on the resolutions adopted at its three-day conference, IJU president S.N. Sinha said that considering the explosion of the broadcast media (television channels), it was imperative that the proposed media council (replacing the Press Council of India) be renamed as media commission, bringing the broadcast media int
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7th Plenary of IJU: Governor Narasimhan for development journalism
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IJU for setting up media commission, law to protect working journalists
Hyderabad: Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan on Sunday said development journalism was the future of the country, as it was all about the lives of people who were forced to live in conditions that didn't bring cheer to anyone. It was all about holding a mirror to what was needed and promised, vis-à-vis what was delivered and what would make things a little bit more meaningful, he told delegates at the valedictory of the 7th plenary of the Indian Journalists Union (IJU), here.
Responding to K. Srinivas Reddy, Editor of ‘Visalandhra' Telugu daily, who said the sword of Damocles hung over the heads of contract journalists, he said 'I think we need to see how to put an end to the contract system in the media,'. He would see what he could do to implement some
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Media, politicians should become long term players: CM
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IJU 7th Plenary inaugural session
Hyderabad: Trying to strike a chord with his hosts, the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Saturday told the news persons that media and politicians should aim at becoming long term players.
For that, credibility in public view was the mantra, equally applicable to both. Inaugurating the seventh plenary session of the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU) presided over by the Union’s president S N Sinha, the Chief Minister said politicians, who make all kinds of promises to people for short term gains, lose credibility when those promises were not kept.
Calling them ‘short term players’, he pointed out, the media should also, for the sake of TRP ratings or a month’s circulation, should not resort to unworthy and sensational reporting. 'Today in the State no one be
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