{"id":9016,"date":"2022-10-28T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T02:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9016"},"modified":"2025-03-29T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T05:14:57","slug":"news-broadcasting-digital-standards-authority-nbdsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/news-broadcasting-digital-standards-authority-nbdsa\/","title":{"rendered":"News Broadcasting &#038; Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About News Broadcasting &amp; Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an independent body set up by the News Broadcasters &amp; Digital Association (NBDA).<\/li>\n<li>It serves as a representative of private television news, current affairs and digital broadcasters.<\/li>\n<li>Funded entirely by its members, the NBDA has 26 news and current affairs broadcasters (comprising 119 news and current affairs channels) as its members.<\/li>\n<li>Various senior members of Indian media organisations serve on its Board of Directors.<\/li>\n<li>It carries out activities \u201cto promote, protect and secure the interests including the right of freedom of speech and expression of the news broadcasters, digital news media and other related entities\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Composition:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The body includes a Chairperson who is to be an eminent jurist, and other members such as news editors, and those experienced in the field of law, education, literature, public administration, etc. nominated by a majority of the Board.<\/li>\n<li>Former Supreme Court judge and jurist AK Sikri is currently serving as the Chairperson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Function:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Authority may initiate proceedings on its own and issue notice or take action in respect to any matter which falls within its regulations.<\/li>\n<li>This can also be through complaints referred to the Authority by the Ministry of Information &amp; Broadcasting or any other governmental body, or by anyone else via its website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/news-broadcasting-digital-standards-authority-which-fined-tv-channel-over-hijab-issue-coverage-8233764\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBDSA is an independent body set up by the News Broadcasters &#038; Digital Association (NBDA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}