MUMBAI: Republic Media Network’s founding member and editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami has resigned from the membership of Editors Guild of India while anchoring a live debate show. He was discussing the silence by the ‘liberal media' on the lynching of three people in Maharashtra’s Palghar on Monday.

Urging panellists to pause during a live debate, he said: “I have been a member of the Editors’ Guild of India for a long time and I, on live television, resign for its absolute compromise on editorial ethics, for being an organisation for operation only for personal interests.”

He also accused EGI president Shekhar Gupta of leading the “compromise on journalism” for not speaking on incidents like this as well as against the spread of fake news amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

He said: “Shekhar Gupta, whatever remaining credibility of the Editors Guild of India has been destroyed by its abject silence on a series of fake news stories. It has been a self-serving organisation.”

EGI is an association of editorial leaders in India, committed to free, fair and independent journalism. Goswami is one of the members of the Editors Guild of India.