{"id":1665,"date":"2021-07-21T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2021-07-21T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:21:10","slug":"webinar-on-digital-media-ethics-code-organized-by-ministry-of-information-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on Digital Media Ethics Code organized by Ministry of Information &#038; Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Webinar on Digital Media Ethics Code organized by Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span id=\"ltrSubtitle\"><br \/>\nCommon citizen at the heart of the Digital Media Ethics Code: Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary, I&amp;B<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 20 JUL 2021 6:12PM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Digital Media Ethics Code for OTT platforms and digital news publishers keeps the citizen at the heart of the grievance redressal mechanism, said Shri Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He added that\u00a0the rules establish a soft touch co-regulatory architecture involving a Code of Ethics and a three-tier grievance redressal framework for publishers on digital media.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Sahay was addressing a webinar on \u2018Digital Media Ethics Code\u2019 organized by the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting for the stakeholders in the northern states\/UTs of Ladakh, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Himachal Pradesh. The webinar for the northern states was a continuation of the series of webinars organized by the Ministry through the regional units of the Press Information Bureau for stakeholders in various regions. These include webinars held for the southern, western, eastern and north-eastern; and central regions during the month of June and July, 2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Shri Sahay made a brief presentation explaining the various aspects of \u2018Digital Media Ethics Code\u2019 such as the Code of Ethics for the publishers; the three-tier grievance redressal mechanism, and the provisions related to furnishing and disclosure of information by the digital media publishers. He informed that the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting has received information from over 1,800 publishers and added that several bodies and associations of publishers have sent communication regarding the constitution of self-regulating bodies under the Rules.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Digital news publishers, journalists, OTT platforms, and academia from the institutes of mass communication actively participated in the virtual interactive meeting. Several questions, doubts and issues highlighted by the participants were addressed during the webinar. Representatives from the Information &amp; Public Relations Departments of the states\/UTs; and heads of the regional media units of the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting also attended the event.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webinar on Digital Media Ethics Code organized by Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting Common citizen at the heart of the Digital Media Ethics Code: Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary, I&amp;B Posted On: 20 JUL 2021 6:12PM by PIB Delhi The Digital Media Ethics Code for OTT platforms and digital news publishers keeps the citizen at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}