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IN Media Watch Briefs | 06/09/2015

Last week the Delhi High Court admitted a petition challenging the definition of journalist under the Working Journalist and other Newspaper Employees and Misc Provision Act, 1955. A Division Bench of the Court issued a notice to the Union of India on widening the definition of a working journalist to cover electronic media. The petitioner works for the Guwahati-based TV channel DY365. He wants TV journalists to come within the ambit of the Act, so that the benefits recommended under the Act can be availed of by them. (Assam Tribune)

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.