Team Herald
PANJIM: Editors of all the Goa media organisations on Friday unanimously condemned the Speaker’s notification on new norms regarding media accreditation for coverage of Assembly sessions and have decided to prepare a memorandum signed by all editors, which will be handed over to Speaker Pramod Sawant soon.
“This Friday evening all the editors from print, electronic and digital media met on a very important issue which resulted out of stringent and draconian guidelines regarding future accreditation of journalists coming to report Assembly proceedings. All the editors in Goa met to deliberate on those guidelines. We all have expressed dissatisfaction on the nature of the guidelines,” Group Editor, Herald Group, Sujay Gupta said here.
Speaking on behalf of all the editors, Gupta said that the guidelines deviate from all procedures established for accreditation of journalists in the State of Goa historically.
“We have decided that we will jointly send a memorandum to the Speaker expressing our dissatisfaction and seek an appointment with him to further deliberate on this issue. The aim is to ensure that the spirit of journalism as well as dignity of Speaker’s office is maintained. We can work harmoniously together so that proper dissemination of news happens,” he said.
Present at the meeting were Editor Navhind Times, Arun Sinha; Editor Herald Group, Sujay Gupta; Editor Dainik Herald, Rajendra Desai; Editor Navprabha, Paresh Prabhu; Editor Goan Varta Sanjay Dhawlikar; Resident Editor Times of India, Rajesh Menon; Resident Editor, Gomantak Times Shashwat Gupta Ray; Editor Goa 365, Sandesh Prabhudesai; Editor Prudent Media, Pramod Acharya; Editor Tarun Bharat, Sagar Jawdekar; Editor Pudhari, Suresh Naik, Editor, The Goan Everyday Joel Aphonso and Editor Bhangarbhuin, Damodar Ghanekar.
