The brewing controversy between the media and the Indian Premier League was laid to rest yesterday after IPL’s governing council chairman Lalit Modi said that new accreditation guidelines will be issued at the earliest.
“There has been a misunderstanding to a certain extent regarding accreditation,” admitted Modi after a meeting with members of the Sports Journalists Federation of India. “We spoke about the issues and the matter has been successfully concluded,” he added.
News organisations will no longer be committed to making all the pictures clicked by them available to the IPL within 24-hours. Instead the organisers of the mega million dollar tournament have decided to let the photo journalists enter a photo competition where the best entry every day will be rewarded.
Media personell from web sites who were earlier being denied accredation will now be allowed to attend post match interviews. “A new detailed media guideline will be issued shortly,” said Modi.
Earlier, media organisations had threatened to boycott the IPL if conditions were not amended. Those conditions dictated that the IPL may use all images taken at the grounds for free and without restrictions, and media organisations must commit themselves to uploading it.
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