Annexure 13: Indian Newspaper Society

Founded in 1939 as the Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society, the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) is a collective body of newspaper industry which looks after the business and financial interests of its members. It was now a membership of more than 730 newspaper organisations. It was only in 1978 that press freedom was formally included as one of its major objectives. It considers that economic strength of newspapers is an essential requirement for ensuring press freedom. It, therefore, takes up with the Government any measure adopted by it that affects the financial interest of newspapers.

The Press Foundation of India, an institution promoted by INS members and run in close cooperation with INS provides opportunities for training and retraining journalists. INS operates a system of accreditation for the advertising agencies also and has laid down conditions for accepting advertisements from them by INS member publications. It represents the interest of the newspaper industry on the Wage Boards set up by the Government from time to time to recommend the revision of wage structure of working journalists and non-journalists newspaper employees.