The Press Council of India (PCI) has decided not to forward the detailed report on “paid news”, prepared by its sub-committee, following divisions within the Council, with some members objecting to the fact that specific media houses had been identified as offenders in that document. The sub-committee, consisting of journalists Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and K. Sreenivas Reddy, prepared the report after meeting a cross-section of society in New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad and also went through many letters and representations that were sent to the Council. But some media houses, particularly those in Hindi, English and Telugu publishing industry, objected to their names being mentioned as practitioners of 'paid news' in that report.

We have the full report of the sub-committee on our site. Visit this link: http://www.newswatch.in/paid-news/