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• Arnab Goswami, the founder and Editor in chief of Republic TV announced his resignation from the Editors’ Guild of India.
• On 20^th April, he made the announcement on Live TV while discussing the silence by ‘liberals’ on the lynching of three peoplein Maharashtra’s Palghar.
• ‘’The Editors’ Guild of India has become a self-serving organisation. And I hereby on LIVE television resign. Listen to me. I’ve been a member of the Editors’ Guild of India for a long time. I hereby on live television resign from the Editors’ Guild of India for its absolute compromise with its editorial ethics. For being an organisation, which is only operating in self-interests. And I accuse you Shekhar Gupta of leading the compromise on Indian journalism by not speaking up against the incidents like this.” Arnab Goswami

The Editor

• The editor is a publication’s editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
• As the ultimate custodian of the personality of the paper/channel he edits, the Editor rightly gets all the blame and credit.
• The hardest role to define but nevertheless essential is that the publication must maintain and promote high standards of good taste.
• Editor, managing editor, or executive editor.

What is the Editor’s Guild?

• The Editors Guild was founded in 1978
• Objectives –

1. Protecting press freedom
2. Raising the standards of editorial leadership of newspapers and magazines.

• Eminent editors of the day felt that the lack of an organized forum of editors was one of the reasons for the sustained suppression of press freedom during the Emergency.
• The Editors Guild took up the issues of abuse of press freedom with the Parliament and Executive, and campaigned hard for restoring the press freedom and other freedoms which had been taken away by amendments to the Constitution, executive orders and judicial pronouncements.
• The freedom to report of proceedings of Parliament (Feroze Gandhi Act) which was taken away in 1976 was restored.

• “Shekhar Gupta, you hear from me first. Whatever remaining credibility of the Editors’ Guild of India, has been destroyed by its abject silence on a series of fake news stories. It has been a self-serving organisation”

Shekhar Gupta

• Shekhar Gupta is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of The Print.
• He was earlier the vice chairman of the India Today Group and served for 19 years as editor-in-chief of the Indian Express. 

News Broadcasters Association (NBA)

• The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) represents the private television news & current affairs broadcasters.
• It is the collective voice of the news & current affairs broadcasters in India .
• 27 news and current affairs broadcasters (comprising 77 news and current affairs channels) as its members.
• The NBA presents a unified and credible voice before the Government, on matters that affect the growing industry.

• In December 2019 , over 50 channels formed a News Broadcaster’s Federation (NBF) to challenge the hegemony of News Broadcaster’s Association (NBA).

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