Following PCI, NBSA norms, ensure new rules don't lead to compliance burden: Top news providers urge Javadekar
India Today
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar on Thursday held an interaction through video-conference with the representatives of the DNPA in the backdrop of the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021
Representatives of top news providers of the country interacted with Information and Broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday on the new norms for digital media. They shared a concern on ensuring the flow of accurate information while also apprising the government about compliance challenges that the new rules may bring. In a video conference with the minister, the news providers under the ambit of Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) apprised the minister that being professional organisations they have a process in their newsrooms to ensure that only accurate information is disseminated. It was put forth that with television news being under National Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA) purview and the print organisations following Press Council of India (PCI) norms, there were ample checks and balances in their newsrooms. And that most of the content that is put out on websites is the same that is used for the TV channels and newspapers.
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