Media Affairs

DUJ Condemns Life Threatening Attack on Uttarakhand Journo

THE Delhi Union of Journalists, in a statement issued on September 2, has condemned the life threatening attack on Uttarakhand based journalist Yogesh Dhimri, whose small digital channel Aanwala News has been in the forefront of exposes about the drug and liquor mafia operating in the state. Dhimri is also known for his bold reportage of the Ankita Bhandari rape and murder case. The attack left him badly injured and he is in hospital. A video of the attack has become viral.

Defending Democracy: A Charter for Protecting Press Freedom

THE National Alliance of Journalists (NAJ), the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), the Andhra Pradesh Working Journalists Federation (APWJF), and associated members from across the country have, on August 9, presented a 13-point charter to members of parliament and political parties, calling for urgent measures to protect journalism amid escalating threats to press freedom and journalists' rights.

Media Organisations Condemn UP Police FIR against Two Journalists

DIGIPUB, PCI, IWPC, said registering of FIR by UP Police against Zakir Ali Tyagi and Wasim Akram Tyagi was “perturbing and “misuse of new criminal laws”.MEDIA organisations, such as DIGIPUB, Press Club of India and the Indian Women’s Press Corp have condemned the FIR registered by the Uttar Pradesh Police against five persons, including two journalists, for their posts on the alleged lynching of a Muslim man in Shamli district.DIGIPUB, a collective of over 90 digital news outfits and independent journalists, said the FIR against journalist Zakir Ali Tyagi and Wasim Akram Tyagi and

FIR Against ‘The Caravan’ Journalists Condemned

The journalists were reporting in Bhajanpura area of Northeast Delhi on a complaint filed by a victim of the communal violence in February 2020.THE Press Club of India (PCI) and the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) have strongly condemned an FIR against journalists of the magazine, The Caravan, in the Bhajanpura Police Station in Northeast Delhi, under serious sections in a four-year-old case of alleged assault on the journalists themselves.

DUJ Condemns Attack on Reporter at a Rally

THE Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ), in a statement issued on May 13, has   strongly condemned the physical attack on YouTube journalist Raghav Trivedi of Molitics India on May 12, 2024 while covering home minister Amit Shah's election rally in Rae Bareli. The attack was reportedly provoked by Raghav's video recording of a woman who said she and other women had been promised Rs 100 by her village pradhan for attending the rally. Payment for attending rallies is a common, though unfortunate, practice that political parties and candidates often resort to in order to gather a crowd.

May Day Greetings from NAJ-DUJ

THE National Alliance of Journalists and the Delhi Union of Journalists through a joint statement issued on May 1, has greeted all its members and co-workers on the occasion of May Day.This May Day has a special significance as the country is in the midst of a national election when the freedom of expression and the rights and dignity of independent journalism, the spirit of inquiry and   the scientific temper and secular democratic character of India is being threatened as never before.In this context, NAJ-DUJ welcomes the promises made by some political parties in their election manifesto

Hindustan ko Bolne Do, says DUJ

THE Delhi Union of Journalists, in a statement issued on April 6, has expressed alarm at the growing misuse of the Information Technology Rules, 2021 to shut down social media accounts and platforms. In a blatant move, the Information & Broadcasting ministry has ordered YouTube to take down the channel Bolta Hindustan on April 4, 2024 under Rule 15(2).The Rule 15(2) entitles the ministry to direct social media platforms to block content.

Ten Years that Crippled the Independent Media

“Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe”------- Shakespeare.INDEED, it is doubly so today, for the bulk of journalists in India, on the eve of what is billed to be the costliest democratic election seen in India, with a new era of hop step and jump defections gaining momentum. This is part of the general picture, of a vicious attack on democracy where one can also see the independent and critical press receiving its worst battering in recent years as the last ten years indicate.

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