{"id":255926,"date":"2025-01-29T00:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255926"},"modified":"2025-01-29T00:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:59:40","slug":"govt-cancels-reporters-collective-non-profit-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/govt-cancels-reporters-collective-non-profit-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt cancels Reporters Collective\u2019s non-profit status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 28 Jan:<\/strong> The Reporters&#8217; Collective (TRC), a non-profit news organisation, known for its investigative reports has said that the tax authorities have called its non-profit status.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a press statement, the TRC on Tuesday said that, since 2021 it existed as a formal registered non-profit trust funded by citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But now the tax authorities have cancelled our non-profit status, claiming journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise in India,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We at The Reporters&#8217; Collective continue to believe that journalism, when done right, is an essential public service for our democracy. Journalism done right is a public good. Investigative journalism that holds the powerful accountable essentially serves the citizens, particularly the poor and the marginalised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have consistently worked with public purpose as a non-profit and in adherence to all Indian laws, without fear or favour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The order cancelling our non-profit status severely impairs our ability to do our work and worsens the conditions for independent public-purposed journalism in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are seeking legal remedies to protect the idea of journalism as a public good and our right to carry out investigative journalism, research and training free of encumbrances, fear or threats at The Collective.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We stand by all our colleagues at The Collective who have shown exceptional courage, skills, and perseverance to produce journalism that we all are proud of. We are not done yet,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 28 Jan: The Reporters&#8217; Collective (TRC), a non-profit news organisation, known for its investigative reports has said that the tax authorities have called its non-profit status. In a press statement, the TRC on Tuesday said that, since 2021 it existed as a formal registered non-profit trust funded by citizens. &#8220;But now the tax authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}