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ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Electronic and Digital Media Association (AEDMA) on Monday appealed to its members to dedicate themselves to the promotion and growth of maintaining journalism ethics in the frontier State of Arunachal Pradesh.
Addressing the gathering at an induction programme for new members of AEDMA organized here at the Arunachal Press Club (APC), AEDMA's president JT Tagam urged the media organizations to follow ethics and refrain from reporting biased news which may diminish the importance of media in the society.
He also appealed to all the new members of AEDMA to follow all the laid-down norms of the organization as well as the Arunachal Pradesh Club. Stating that, he cautioned the members that to continue the membership of AEDMA every media house will have to keep their websites active, have Company Registration under the Minister of Corporate Affairs (MCA), as well as maintain a proper office.
General secretary of AEDMA Sangge Droma informed that after proper scrutiny of documents and verification of the establishments as per the AEDMA bye-laws, only five media organizations have qualified to be affiliated with AEDMA. After this year's membership drive, the affiliated media houses with AEDMA are now 14, added Sangge.
Earlier, attending the event, general secretary of APC Damien Lepcha said, "As a media organization, we have a greater responsibility to shoulder and at the same time we have to be cautious whenever we do reports on the ground. The future of journalism is digital and electronic media, so we should always try to provide quality news."
He further appealed to the young journalists to learn from seniors and also try to share the good things so as to improve the best of the best news and perform quality journalism.
Five new media houses, which include Arunachal News Live, Arunachal News 365, Capital News, India Today NE, Voice Now were given membership with the organization on Sunday.
It may be mentioned that earlier there were only nine electronic and digital media houses that were affiliated with AEDMA - Arunachal Today, Arunachal Mirror, Arunachal News 24x7, Gyoloo News, Itanagar News, The Space, Arunachal Headlines, Arunachal Express and Synyik Watchdog.
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