News agencies to boycott IPL
Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Major international news agencies would not be covering this year's IPL because they are unhappy with the tournament's media guidelines. They had boycotted the previous year's IPL for the same reason. The News Media Coalition, the umbrella body that comprises global news and photograph agencies Reuters, AP, AFP and Getty Images, has failed to get the tournament's organisers to amend the conditions. Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, refused to change rules which barred the distribution of photographs and news to cricket-specific websites. — Cricinfo