Saturday, January 8, 2011

GoM on paid news set up

  • The Union government has set up a Group of Ministers (GoM) to examine the problem of paid news and suggest policy measures to combat it.
  • It will be headed by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. The other members are: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni, Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Law Minister Veerappa Moily, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Human Resource Development Minister Kabil Sibal.
  • It is likely to discuss the report on paid news prepared by journalists Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and K. Srinivas Reddy for the Press Council of India (PCI).

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