PCI is a statutory body formed in 1976 by the parliament, government of India. This is the official watchdog of the press that gets its power from the PCI act of 1948. This body is a well-represented council which formally has the then Supreme Court president as its head and 28 members from the world of media. Furthermore, PCI has laid down formal norms for journalists as well as a guiding map for the press in India. It is one of the bodies saddled with the responsibility of regulating the activities of print media in India. According to Kumari (2015) [8], PCI is a mechanism by means of which Indian Press is being supervised and observed maintaining height of possible levels of professional journalistic decorum and conduct. It is as well worthy of note that one of the reasons behind the establishment of this noble institution is rooted in the concept that in a democratic society, the press needs at once to be free and non-interfering. Kumari further posits that the council has ever since been reduced to a toothless dog, incapacitated and hence can no longer perform its statutory obligations. This he said accounts for the reason behind the loss of professionalism and drastic reduction in the level of adherence to the ethics that guide the operations of media professionals in the industry especially those in the print media notwithstanding the well outlined sets of codes provided by the Council which are expected to guide the operations of practitioners in this field. It is against this backdrop that this study sets out to examine whether Times of India and Hindustan Times which according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) are the most circulated and third circulated newspapers with 3.029 million and 1.132 million daily circulations respectively are adhering to the codes of PCI making special reference to the two papers’ report age of the COVID 19 pandemic.