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The '''Press Council of India''' is a [[statutory]], [[Adjudication|adjudicating]] organisation in [[India]] formed in 1966 by its parliament. It is the self-regulatory watchdog of the press, for the press and by the press, that operates under the Press Council Act of 1978.<ref name="Sharma2009p46">{{cite book|author=Kartik Sharma|title=Freedom of the Press: Using the Law to Defend Journalists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cBkNQZT0fLQC |year=2009|publisher=Socio Legal Information |isbn=978-81-89479-59-6|pages=46–48}}</ref><ref name="Bardhan Sri Ramesh 2006 pp. 39–60">{{cite journal | last=Bardhan | first=Nilanjana | last2=Sri Ramesh | first2=Krishnamurthy | title=Public Relations in India Review of a Programme of Research | journal=Journal of Creative Communications | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=1 | issue=1 | year=2006 | doi=10.1177/097325860500100103 | pages=39–60}}, Quote: "The Press Council of India is the most prominent official watchdog for the print media protecting newspapers as well as news agencies"</ref> The Council has a chairman – traditionally, a retired Supreme Court judge, and 28 additional members of which 20 are members of media, nominated by the newspapers, television channels and other media outlets operating in India.<ref name=pcoi2017>[http://www.presscouncil.nic.in/Content/1_1_Introduction.aspx Press Council of India, Introduction], National Informatics Centre, Government of India (2017)</ref><ref>[https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/press-council-of-india-reconstituted/article24047497.ece Press Council of India reconstituted], ''The Hindu'' (31 May 2018)</ref> In the 28 member council, 5 are members of the lower house (Lok Sabha) and upper house (Rajya Sabha) of the Indian parliament and three represent culture literary and legal field as nominees of Sahitya Academy, University Grant Commission and Bar Council of India .<ref name="Sharma2009p46"/>

Justice [[Chandramauli Kumar Prasad]] is Chairman of the Council {{as of|2021|lc=y}}.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://presscouncil.nic.in/Content/8_1_CurrentCompositin.aspx | title=Current Composition | publisher=Press Council of India | access-date=10 March 2015}}</ref> He has been appointed for a second term. The predecessor was Justice [[Markandey Katju]] (2011 – 2014).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://presscouncil.nic.in/Content/10_1_ListPrivChairman.aspx | title=Previous Chairpersons | publisher=Press Council of India | access-date=10 March 2015}}</ref>

==Code of Ethics==
The Press Council of India has issued the "Norms of Journalistic Conduct", which is one of two journalism-related codes in use in India.<ref name="Wasserman Rao 2008 pp. 163–181">{{cite journal | last=Wasserman | first=Herman | last2=Rao | first2=Shakuntala | title=The glocalization of journalism ethics | journal=Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=9 | issue=2 | year=2008 | doi=10.1177/1464884907086873 | pages=163–181}}</ref>

==Complaints==
The Press Council of India accepts complaints against and by the press in matters relating to a journalist's or media organisation's ethical failures.<ref name=pcoi2017/> According to Kartik Sharma, the Council can investigate and issue a report. It also can "warn, admonish, censure or disapprove" those it finds at fault, but it has no powers to enforce nor impose any penalty on individual journalists and publications.<ref name="Sharma2009p46"/>

On 21 July 2006, it censured three newspapers — ''[[Times of India]]'' ([[Delhi]] and [[Pune]]), ''[[Punjab Kesari]]'' ([[Delhi]]) and ''[[Mid-Day]]'' ([[Mumbai]]) — for violation of norms of journalistic conduct.<ref>{{Cite web|title=PR/5/06-07-PCI|url=https://presscouncil.nic.in/OldWebsite/press_Releases/PR_5_06-07.htm|access-date=2021-03-25|website=presscouncil.nic.in}}</ref>

==Paid news==
The Press Council of India conducted a limited study of the widespread practice of "paid news" in India in 2010. In a report issued in July 2010, it stated that "paid news" is a pervasive, structured and highly organised practice in Indian newspapers and other media outlets, where news space and favourable coverage is exchanged for money.<ref name=pcoi2010/> It wrote, "paid news is a complex phenomenon and has acquired different forms over the last six decades [1950–2010]. It ranges from accepting gifts on various occasions, foreign and domestic junkets [trips], various monetary and non-monetary benefits, besides direct payment of money. Another form of paid news that has been brought to the notice of the Press Council of India by the [[Securities and Exchange Board of India]] (SEBI) is in the form of “private treaties” between media companies and corporate entities. Private treaty is a formal agreement between the media company and another non-media company in which the latter transfers certain shares of the company to the former in lieu of advertisement space and favourable coverage."<ref name=pcoi2010/>

The 2010 investigation was limited to the 2009 elections by the Press Council of India. It found substantial evidence of corrupt practices and collusion between the Indian media, various politicians and political parties.<ref name=pcoi2010/> It ruled that newspapers should not carry articles that report "enmity or hatred between people on the ground of religion, race, caste, community or language", refrain from critical statements on "personal character and conduct of a political candidate", refuse financial or indirect forms of compensation for political coverage among other voluntary guidelines.<ref name=pcoi2010>[http://www.presscouncil.nic.in/WriteReadData/userfiles/file/CouncilReport.pdf Report on Paid News], The Press Council of India (30 July 2010)</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://presscouncil.nic.in/}}

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