Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“member” means a member of the Council admitted as a member from any categories of membership as specified in section 7, and includes the Chairman of the Board as specified under subsection 9(3);
“non-media member” means individual including academician, media trainer, non-governmental organization, and public not from the media industry;
“media industry” means any—
(a)
news agency, which is a news organization incorporated under any Malaysian law for the purpose of collecting, verifying, and disseminating news, information, images, and videos;
(b)
newspaper organization, which is a news organization that publishes printed or digital reading materials on a daily or periodic basis;
(c)
broadcaster, which is a radio or television station that broadcasts for public listening or viewing, including materials available in digital format via the internet;
(d)
media practitioner;
(e)
independent media practitioner;
(f)
foreign media, which is a media company owned or controlled by foreign media organizations, who has media practitioners in Malaysia and publish news and journalism content in Malaysia or particularly about Malaysia;
(g)
media publisher;
(h)
media company; and
(i)
media association, but does not include the advertising industry, online service providers and entities that aggregate or develop news from other sources;
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“journalism” means the practice of collecting, organizing, analysing and conveying information or news to the public done by journalists, bloggers, analysts or any person involved in publishing and shared whether in printed or digital form through any medium of publication, radio and television broadcasts, or digital media;
“Board” means the Board of Malaysian Media Council established under section 8 of this Act;
“Council” means the Malaysian Media Council established under section 3 of this Act;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for communications;
“media publisher” means an individual who is responsible for overseeing the publication or broadcasting of news content in print, online and broadcast media, in preparation of final published edition to the public;
“media practitioner” means a journalist, editor, photographer, videographer and graphic designer or any person involved in the creation, production and dissemination of content for a media company and such person shall be an employee of a media publisher;
“independent media practitioner” means a person producing news content for a media company but is not an employee or a person publishing news content and commentaries which are hosted on online media;
“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Board and the Council appointed under section 9 of this Act;
“media association” means any non-profit entity, trade union or association consist of media practitioners representing the interests and welfare of the media parties;
“media company” means an organization or business entity that creates, produces, distributes and manages media content in printed, broadcast or digital form, and shall have not less than ten media practitioners as employees of that media company.
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