Documents lay bare how efforts by prominent legacy media organizations fed into the government’s eagerness to control digital news media.
If you were under the impression that there was a running battle between the government and the media (read: all media), you’d be wrong.
It is now clear that legacy media organizations like the influential Times Group, the Indian Newspaper Society (which represents print media houses) and the Digital News Publishers’ Association (a collective formed by 10 of India’s largest print media companies) lobbied the government to impose curbs on digital media companies, whose rapid proliferation they perceived as competition and hence a threat.
The Morning Context has accessed official documents under the Right to Information Act and a review …
Akshay is an investigative reporter and former writer at The Morning Context. Based in Delhi, he writes about the environment, public policy and economy from the lens of the pulls and pressures of an ambitious democracy. Akshay uses the right to information extensively for reporting stories of vital public interest. Over the past decade and more, he has worked for HuffPost India, Frontline, The Economic Times, Down To Earth and DNA.
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