The News Media Law The News Media Law (The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law No. 12/2014) The 14th Waxing of Daboung, 1375 M.E. (14th March, 2014) The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw hereby enacts this Law: Chapter I Title and Definition 1.This law shall be called the News Media Law. 2.The following expressions contained in this Law shall have the meanings given hereunder; (a) News Media means the public information industry carried out such as searching, acquiring, possessing, recording the news, analysising, distributing the information, by using the form of letter, voice, picture, television, figure, picture design by printing media, television media, internet media taking responsibility by the editor or any other means. (b) News Media Man means a person who carries out any industry relating to the news media; (c) Council means the Myanmar News Media Council formed in accord with this Law; (d) News Broadcasting means the broadcasting to the public by means of voice or letter or picture; (e) Newspaper means a regular publication of foreign or local news, and writing statements relating to them; (f) Reporter means a person who sends the information to any news media after searching and acquiring; (g) Sar Nal Zine means a publicated text such as book, periodical, newspaper, journal, magazine which expresses news, novel, article, poem, cartoon, picture, photo, illustration and so on by means of television technology, internet technology or any other technology by carrying out news media industry regularly or without fixing time; (h) News Agency means an industry, corporation, company or organization which collects and acquires the information from local, foreign sources and distributes to media with fee or without taking fee by any means; (i) Censor means the cutting, removing, prohibiting or banning the contents of any Sar Nal Zine before printing; (j) Ministry means the Ministry of Information of the Union Government. Chapter II Objectives 3. The objectives of this Law are as follows: Page 1 of 7