{"id":1045512,"date":"2026-10-28T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1045512"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T01:18:25","slug":"sc-poser-to-govt-on-media-fetters-amid-concern-over-rules-for-investigative-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/28\/sc-poser-to-govt-on-media-fetters-amid-concern-over-rules-for-investigative-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"SC poser to govt on media fetters amid concern over rules for investigative journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the response of the Centre on a petition filed by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) challenging various provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and accompanying rules as a serious assault on journalistic freedom and an encroachment on investigative reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation requires prior government consent to publish an investigative report. Newsrooms will shut down if journalists must seek permission before publishing information under the DPDP Act of 2023 and the rules implemented in 2025, the DNPA, which represents 21 digital news publishers, contended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the response of the Centre on a petition filed by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) challenging various provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and accompanying rules as a serious assault on journalistic freedom and an encroachment on investigative reporting. The legislation requires prior government consent to publish an investigative report. Newsrooms will shut down if journalists must seek permission before publishing information under the DPDP Act of 2023 and the rules implemented in 2025, the DNPA, which represents 21 digital news publishers, contended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045517,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045512\/revisions\/1045517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}