India, Jan. 28 -- The Reporters' Collective (TRC), a non-profit news organisation, claimed that the income tax department cancelled its non-profit status. In a statement issued on its website, TRC said that since 2021 it existed as a formal registered non-profit funded by the citizens. "But now the tax authorities have cancelled our non-profit status, claiming journalism does not serve any public purpose and therefore cannot be carried out as a non-profit exercise in India," the Reporters' Collective statement added.

"We at The Reporters' Collective continue to believe that journalism, when done right, is an essential public service for our democracy. Journalism done right is a public good. Investigative journalism that holds the powerfu...