Media Organizations

Indian federation of working

journalists
(ifwj)
 Purpose – To safe guard the business and
financial interests of its members.

 To encourage research & publish Journals

 Giving exposure to media persons

 Founded in New Delhi on 28 October 1950.
Independent India's first trade union of media
persons, the IFWJ has now over 30,000 primary and
associate members, working for electronic media,
news agencies and 1,260 journals of 17 languages in
35 states and Union Territories. Having branches in
every state

The largest journalist organization in

the non-aligned world is the Indian
Federation of Working Journalists
 It has bilateral relations with over 47 national unions of the
world. IFWJ members partake in the activities of
International Labour Organisation (I.L.O., Geneva) and
the UNESCO's International Programme for Development
of Communication (I.P.D.C., Paris)

 It is affiliated to the Confederation of Asian

Journalist Unions, Colombo. IFWJ president is
also the chairman of this confederation. In recent
years hundreds of IFWJ members have been to
several countries in Latin America, Europe, the
Afro-Asian region and
the United States for conferences and training.
 The IFWJ is headed by its president,
elected in a nationwide direct voting by
thousands of its primary members every
three years.

 The President is assisted by a Working

Committee which has a Secretary-General
four vice-presidents, six secretaries, a
treasurer and 17 members of executive,
chosen at the plenary session by hundreds
of its National Council members.
 The IFWJ has, as its 12th President, K.
Vikram Rao, formerly of the Times of India
 His distinguished predecessors included

late M. Chalapathi Rau, editor of

Lucknow's National Herald, late Pothan
Joseph, editor of the daily Dawn and
Bangalore's Deccan Herald, late Adhir C.
Bannerjee of Calcutta, late T. R.
Ramaswami, editor of Madras daily
Makkal Kural, and Late Pandit
Banarasidas Chaturvedi of U.P
INDIAN NEWSPAPERS
SOCIETY (ins)
 OBJETIVE:

 To act as a central organization of the

Press in India.

 To collect information upon all topics of

interest to members.

 To promote co-operation in all matters

affecting the interest of members.

 To hold periodical conferences

 Indian newspapers society:
 Founded in 1939 as the Indian and Eastern Newspaper
Society, the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) is a collective
body of newspaper industry which looks after the business
and financial interests of its members. It was now a
membership of more than 730 newspaper organisations.

 The Press Foundation of India, an institution promoted by

INS members and run in close cooperation with INS
provides opportunities for training and retraining
journalists. INS operates a system of accreditation for the
advertising agencies also and has laid down conditions for
accepting advertisements from them by INS member
publications.
Continued…

 It represents the interest of the

newspaper industry on the Wage Boards
set up by the Government from time to
time to recommend the revision of wage
structure of working journalists and non-
journalists newspaper employees.
Main FUNCTION:

 One of the key functions

performed by the society is to
provide assistance to member
publications in regard to
monitoring the recovery of
their dues from Advertising
Agencies and Advertisers.
 At present Mr Hormusji N Cama,
owner of Bombay Samachar [the
oldest Indian and Asian daily still
in circulation] is the president of
INS [2008-09]. INS is hosting the
annual congress of World
Association for Newspapers (WAN)
at Hyderabad in December 2009.
 The indian Newspaper Society is
proud to have played a significant
role in protecting and promoting
the freedom of the Press in the
world's largest democracy.
Press Institute of India
 Founded in 1963, the Press
Institute of India is an independent,
non-profit trust, established to
create and sustain the high and
responsible standards of journalism
required by a developing country
committed to democratic
functioning.
 For many years the PII was the nodal
agency for sending journalists -- reporters,
sub- editors and even photographers -- for
training to the Thomson Foundation, UK.
 Now PII's training workshops for
journalists are conducted in-house or in
cities and rural areas of India. There is a
strong focus on rural reporting,
development writing and writing on
women's empowerment through the
panchayats.
 Over the years the PII has trained over
4,000 professionalseditorial and
management from India, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh and other parts of Asia.
 The first of its kind in Asia, the
Press Institute of India (PII) is an
independent non-profit society
founded in 1963. It was established
to create and sustain high and
responsible standards of journalism
required by a developing country
committed to democratic
functioning.
 Over the decades, PII has organised
and supervised a wide range of
media training courses and
workshops designed to improve
professional journalistic and
management skills at all levels. It
has trained over 4000 professionals
- editorial and management - from
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh and other parts of Asia.
 PII is currently giving priority to
promoting human development
journalism, with emphasis on the
panchayat movement, rural
reporting, education, biotechnology,
economics issues and women’s
empowerment. This is to encourage
coverage of vital issues affecting
the lives of the majority of our
people, neglected by the mass
media.
Publications
 Grassroots is a monthly journal
published in Hindi and English to
disseminate and promote reportage on
the human condition. A Tamil edition
commenced in March 2005. Grassroots
contains a wide range of articles
commissioned by PII.
 PII continues to publish Vidura in
English, a professional quarterly since
45 years on current issues concerning
the press. It has recently been revamped
and is India’s most authoritative media
journal.
Training and other activities
 The Press Institute has long-standing
media-related collaborations with
organizations such as the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO),
 United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP), United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA), United
Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF),
Press Foundation of Asia and the Ford
Foundation.
 Other notable collaborators
have been the British Council,
Thomson Foundation, Britain’s
Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, Oxfam (GB), Sir Dorabji
Tata Trust, International Council
for Rehabilitation of Torture
Victims, and International Red
Cross.
 As PII refocuses on training in
technical and subject skills,
workshops in Biotechnology are
being conducted with the Department
of Science and Technology, and
Economics Education with the
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung and
Indian Liberal Group. Training
projects with the World Bank are also
projected.
 PII has actively supported the
‘Right to Information’ campaign’
started by the Mazdoor Kisan
Shakti Sangathan in Rajasthan by
bringing out a publication called
‘Transparency’. Subsequently its
leader, Aruna Roy, won the Ramon
Magasaysay Award, culminating in
the enactment of a law on
‘Freedom of Journalism’.