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Premier, non-partisan association of editorial leaders in India. Committed to free, fair and independent journalism. Not a watchdog, but a conscience keeper.

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The Editors Guild of India condemns the arrest of Muhammad Zubair, co-founder of the fact checking site AltNews, by the Delhi Police on June 27, for a tweet from 2018. EGI demands that the Delhi Police should immediately release Muhammad Zubair.
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EGI is deeply concerned about the IT “surveys” being carried out at the offices of BBC India. Is distressed by the continuing trend of government agencies being used to intimidate and harass news organisations that are critical of ruling establishment.
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The Editors Guild of India is disturbed by the irresponsible conduct of some national news channels for deliberately creating circumstances that target vulnerable communities by spewing hatred towards them and their beliefs.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on the arrest of Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement.
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The Editors Guild of India condemns the intimidating manner in which UP and MP police have registered FIRs against senior journalists, for reporting on farmers’ protests in Delhi on Jan 26. EGI finds these FIRs as an attempt to intimidate, harass, and stifle free media.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed about the Income Tax “surveys” at the offices of news websites and .
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Editors Guild of India has sent a letter to the Chief Minister of UP, on protection of press freedom and journalists' rights. The letter highlighted some of the recent cases of state excesses against journalists, and urged the CM to take steps for protecting their rights.
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EGI is deeply concerned about the raids at the residences of senior journalists on the morning of October 3, and the subsequent detention of many of those journalists. Urges the state to follow due process, and not to make draconian criminal laws as tools for press intimidation
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a Media Advisory on the news coverage of the ongoing farmers' protests in the national capital.
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The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the cavalier manner in which Uttar Pradesh Police is treating the mysterious death of TV journalist, Sulabh Srivastava, in Pratapgarh.
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The Editors Guild of India is deeply shocked by the Tripura Police’s action of booking 102 people, including journalists, under the coercive Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, for reporting and writing on the recent communal violence in the state.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement.
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Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed by the continuing trend of heavy-handedness by the state authorities in Uttar Pradesh with respect to journalists and media.
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The Editors Guild of India condemns the filing of First Information Reports (FIRs) by the Uttar Pradesh Police against The Wire and several other journalists, for their tweets on an assault on an elderly Muslim man in Ghaziabad on June 5th.
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The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the death of Raman Kashyap, a TV journalist who was reporting on Lakhimpur Kheri’s farmers protest on October 3.
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1/6- The Editors Guild of India notes with deep concern, the claims made in the the New York Times report that in 2017 the Indian government bought Pegasus from Israel. Writes to Justice Raveendran committee to take cognisance of it. #Pegasus #PegasusSpyware
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Editors Guild of India Statement
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Editors Guild of India expresses concern over the search and survey conducted by the Income Tax Department at the offices of The Quint and at the residence of its founder Raghav Bahl.
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EGI releases the Report of the Fact-Finding Mission on Media’s Reportage of the Ethnic Violence in Manipur. Report attached with this post, as well as available for download at the link below 1/6
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The Editors Guild of India unequivocally condemns the assassination of Rising Kashmir Editor Shujaat Bukhari. This is a grave attack on press freedom and democratic voices. We will be issuing a more detailed statement soon
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EGI is disturbed by the manner in which Delhi Police carried out search and seizures at homes of senior editors of the Wire, as well as their office. Urges police to adhere to rules of investigation and protect integrity of sensitive journalistic information.
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The Editors Guild of India is concerned about the Income Tax raids on July 22, at the offices of country’s leading newspaper group, Dainik Bhaskar, as well as a Lucknow based independent news channel, Bharat Samachar.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued this statement on an increasingly challenging environment for freedom of the press:
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EGI is shocked by the media reports on the wide spread surveillance, allegedly mounted by government agencies, on journalists, civil society activists, businessmen and politicians, using a hacking software known as #Pegasus , created and developed by the Israeli company NSO.
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Editors Guild of India, along with Press Club of India, is organising a meet to protest against sedition and other criminal charges filed against senior journalists. 4:30 PM Saturday, Jan 30 Press Club of India, New Delhi Open to all! fb live @
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on FIRs that have been filed against journalists of Republic TV
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The Editors Guild of India urges the Union Government to declare journalists as frontline workers and be allowed priority vaccination against Coronavirus, along with other frontline workers. #COVID19 #COVID19Vaccine #COVIDEmergency #Media #fronlineworkers
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Statement by the Executive Committee of the Editors Guild of India on the FIRs registered by the Manipur police against the Guild, as well as the intimidatory remarks made by the Chief Minister of Manipur
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Editors Guild of India is concerned about ED raids at the office of , and residences of its senior journalists and officials. EGI is concerned that raids by government agencies are not used as coercive measures to suppress free and independent journalism.
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2021 has begun on an ominous note for India’s free press . At a time when the media and journalists are under attack, the Media Watch Committee of the Editors Guild of India will track every month cases of media targeted for doing their job. This is January 2021 tracker.
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The Editors Guild of India considers it reprehensible that images of women journalists and other professionals from minority community were posted online and shared over social media, in a denigrating manner, putting them “up for auction”.
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EGI is deeply concerned by amendment to IT Rules 2021 made by MEITY, giving authority to PIB to determine veracity of news reports, and directing online intermediaries and social media platforms to take down content deemed as ‘fake’. Guild feels this is akin to censorship.
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The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the casual manner in which the editors of Kashmir based publications are routinely detained by security forces for reporting or for their editorials.
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The Editors Guild of India is aghast at the manner in which the office and the management of Kashmir Press Club, the largest journalists’ association in the Valley, was forcibly taken over by a group of journalists with the help of armed policemen on January 15, 2022.
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EGI is deeply concerned about the excessive use of UAPA against journalists, most recently, in the case of the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Kashmir-based journalist, by the NIA. The Guild urges the state administration to respect democratic values.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on the arrest of journalists in Manipur under sedition laws as well as UAPA. EGI demands the immediate release of the editors and withdrawal of these cases that pose a threat to free expression, and to democracy itself.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement.
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Editors Guild of India is shocked by the manner in which police arrested, stripped, and humiliated a local journalist in Sidhi, MP, as well as chained another journalist in Balasore, Odisha. Urges Home ministry to act immediately and take strict actions.
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The Editors Guild of India is shocked by the arrest of Agra based journalist, Gaurav Bansal. His lawyer has alleged that "he was given third degree torture and humiliated by police officers". The Guild demands his immediate release and an independent court monitored inquiry.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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The Editors Guild of India expresses shock and disbelief at the manner in which a Group of Ministers (GoM) has prepared a report with an embedded toolkit to control the narrative about the government in the media.
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The Editors Guild of India condemns the despicable manner in which a barely veiled threat of violence has been issued against journalists by Mr. Lal Singh, an MLA belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and a former minister in the Jammu and Kashmir government
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EGI issued a statement on the arrest of #MandeepPunia .
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on the extradition case filed by the United States government against Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, in a court in UK.
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Join us today to protest against sedition and other criminal charges pressed against senior journalists Over the last two days, 5 FIRs have been registered across towns in UP and MP, in an effort to intimidate and stifle free media 4:30 PM Saturday, Jan 30 Press Club of India
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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EGI is disturbed by the amendments notified to the IT Rules 2021, by @GoI_MeitY giving itself authority to constitute a “fact checking unit”, with sweeping powers to determine what is “fake or false” wrt “business of Central Government”, and order take down to intermediaries.
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The Editors Guild of India condoles the deaths of journalists due to Covid-19. The Guild urgently demands Central Government to ensure priority vaccination of journalists.
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Editors Guild of India condoles the death of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, Danish Siddiqui, on July 16, in Afghanistan, while he was covering a clash between Afghan security forces and the Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan.
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Editors Guild condemns this action and demands their immediate release and restoration of their freedom to travel. @Tripura_Police @assampolice @DGPAssamPolice @HMOIndia
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We have been detained at the Nilambazar police station, Karimganj, Assam. We were informed by the officer in-charge of Nilambazar PS that SP of Gomti District gave the orders for our detention. Official statement by @hwnewsnetwork . @Jha_Swarnaa
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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EGI zoom webinar on "Reporting from Red Zones" subjected to relentless disruption by cyber attackers, who clearly did not want the speakers' voices to be heard. Multiple encroachers posted obscene messages and videos. Webinar called off within 10 minutes.
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EGI is deeply concerned about Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, as it carries provisions that can have adverse impact on press freedom. Urges @loksabhaspeaker to refer bill to Parliamentary Committee. @narendramodi @GoI_MeitY @AshwiniVaishnaw
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The Editors Guild of India condemns the continuing online harassment of women journalists, which includes targeted and organised online trolling as well as threats of sexual abuse.
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Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on MJ Akbar issue. Read the full text here
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The Editors Guild of India is concerned about the notification of Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021.
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#MandeepPunia has got bail.
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@IndEditorsGuild statement on Tripura violence.
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The Editors Guild has issued a statement on government actions against media in Jammu and Kashmir
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Editors Guild of India strongly condemns the arrest of Fahad Shah, editor of the Kashmir Walla. Demands his immediate release and urges state authorities to ensure that FIRs, intimidatory questioning, and wrongful detainment are not used as tools for suppressing press freedom
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एडिटर्स गिल्ड ऑफ इंडिया ने राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में चल रहे किसानों के विरोध प्रदर्शनों के समाचार कवरेज पर एक मीडिया सलाहकार जारी किया है
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EGI statement on attack against journalist Nikhil Wagle in the city of Pune on Friday
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Editors Guild of India
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on the arrest warrant against senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, issued by a lower court in Gujarat in a criminal defamation case filed by the Adani group in 2017.
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EGI withdraws references to the Wire story in statement from Jan 2022 on online harrasment of women journalists. Urges newsrooms to resist the temptation of moving fast on sensitive stories, circumventing due journalistic norms.
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EGI thanks all media and civil liberties organisations that have lent their support to the Guild @PCITweets @iwpcdelhi @mumbaipressclub @PUCLindia @DigipubIndia @mediatrack_in DUJ
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The Editors Guild of India statement on the continuing incarceration and inhuman treatment of the journalist Siddique Kappan.
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The Editors Guild of India is deeply anguished by the shutting down of the Kashmir Press Club, following a disturbing sequence of events- an armed takeover of the Club with the aid of state police, and its “re-registration" being earlier put "in abeyance". #KashmirPressClub
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement -
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एडिटर्स गिल्ड ऑफ इंडिया उत्तर प्रदेश में पत्रकारों और मीडिया के प्रति राज्य के अधिकारियों द्वारा लगातार सख्त प्रवृत्ति से बहुत उद्विग्न है।
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement on the criminal charges against Patricia Mukhim, editor of Shillong Times
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Editors Guild of India
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Editors Guild of India has issued a statement over a Patna High Court order restraining the media from reporting on the investigation into the Muzaffarpur shelter abuse case
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement.
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EGI statement on the attack on webinar on reporting from Naxal areas. Disruptors posted obscene messages and videos in the midst of webinar that brought together journalists who have been at the forefront of chronicling the conflict, state excesses, and human rights abuses.
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The Editors Guild of India welcomes the Supreme Court judgment on the sedition case against senior journalist Vinod Dua. The apex court not just quashed the criminal complaint against Dua, but has also underlined the importance of protecting journalists from sedition cases.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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Editors Guild of India strongly condemns the brazen airstrikes on a building in Gaza that housed the editorial offices of Al Jazeera and the Associated Press.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement
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EGI is deeply concerned about the arbitrary suspension of social media accounts of journalists and media organisations in Punjab. Urges state government and @GoI_MeitY to follow due processes laid down by the Supreme Court, and to release orders of suspension in public domain.
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Editors Guild of India condemns a Myanmar court’s verdict that has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison after pronouncing them guilty of having breached the country’s Official Secrets Act & demands their release from jail at the earliest #FreeWaLoneKyawSoeOo
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EGI has been watching and reading with great concern the coverage of the Manipur violence by sections of the media. EGI calls on all journalists and media houses to exercise all professional standards of journalism in the coverage of this conflict tearing apart the state.
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The Editors Guild of India has issued a statement -
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The Editors Guild of India urges editors and journalists to exercise utmost restraint, and observe the highest professional standards, in reporting communal disturbances that have erupted in various parts of the country.
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